EU chief Jean-Claude Juncker to pocket £1.8million
NEW EU President Jean-Claude Juncker will pick up a colossal £1.8million in pay and perks.
The former Luxembourg PM will receive the huge sum if he serves just one five-year term as Commission chief.
Brussels’ top bureaucrat will then pocket a £52,500 pension for life.
Arch-federalist Mr Juncker will get a basic salary of £245,629 a year – worth more than £1.2million over a five-year term and dwarfing David Cameron’s £142,500 annual pay packet.
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The salary is topped up by a “residential allowance” of £184,222 over five years, plus a huge expenses deal of £1,136 each month.
On leaving office he receives a £20,469 resettlement allowance, a transitional allowance of £98,252 for three years, plus his pension.
Tory MP Andrew Percy said: “No wonder Mr Juncker was so desperate to get this job and its first-class seat on the Brussels gravy train.”
Mr Juncker has a long record as a Brussels insider intent on increasing EU meddling.
Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt accused Europe’s leaders of “cowardice” for privately opposing Mr Juncker, then publicly supporting him.