{"id":243531,"date":"2026-10-08T07:49:02","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T07:49:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2026\/10\/08\/halving-meps-salaries-would-take-them-out-of-their-bubbles-mep-says\/"},"modified":"2026-10-08T07:49:02","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T07:49:02","slug":"halving-meps-salaries-would-take-them-out-of-their-bubbles-mep-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2026\/10\/08\/halving-meps-salaries-would-take-them-out-of-their-bubbles-mep-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Halving MEPs\u2019 salaries would take them \u2018out of their bubbles\u2019, MEP says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Left MEP Marc Botenga said his group\u2019s proposal to halve MEPs\u2019 salaries would bring them \u201cdown to earth\u201d and make it easier for them to \u201crealise what a normal European is going through\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2026\/10\/08\/halving-meps-salaries-would-take-them-out-of-their-bubbles-mep-says\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Left MEP Marc Botenga said his group\u2019s proposal to halve MEPs\u2019 salaries would bring them \u201cdown to earth\u201d and make it easier for them to \u201crealise what a normal European is going through\u201d. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":243532,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243531\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}