The role of personal parliamentary assistants in the European Parliament

摘要: The article scrutinises the behaviour of personal staff MEPs, using newly collected survey data. known as accredited parliamentary assistants (APAs) have long been in shadow groups and European Parliament’s (EP) central Secretariat. In 2010s, MEPs’ allowance for increased a statute APAs was adopted. Against background these reforms, this hypothesises that are frequent source assistance MEPs comparison to other EP staff. It assumes significance APAs’ involvement depends on their characteristics direct employees MEPs. Results show frequently assist activities relevant internal life EP, but they less involved inter-institutional relations. shows seek support which is political, also tailored towards them personally.