@icedquinn EU parliament MPs can have assistants, there's pay for said assistants. It's given out by EU bodies (which is funded by EU taxes so indirectly citizen taxes in France)
FN put their members as EUP assistants because the party had no money because it's a hollow shell paid for mostly by the privated fortune of Lepen and co
said EUP assistants didn't work, simple as

suit was pretty fucking ironclad too, it's not the only party that got sued with the exact same thing but the FN was really really fucking sloppy
>assistants who were mandated to live in bruxelles by their contract spent 12 days over 4 years there
>party forged fake documents to prove work was being done
>many private conversations with FN leadership being aware of the fraud, being aware that it's fraud, stating "our finances are cooked if we don't continue to fraud"