Complaints about Germans' sense of humour have been overstated if this thoroughly enjoyable six minute (subtitled) video is anything to go by. A German news crew sets up its cameras in the European Parliament to film MEPs turning up at 7am to claim their daily expenses and then heading straight home. Before long, MEPs are fleeing to the lifts and hiding their faces from the cameras. Their shame ends when they chillingly persuade the Parliament to kick out the film crew so that they can continue to cheat on their expenses unobserved. Of course, the Parliament obliges.
(Link from David Frum, who comments: "It's good to be a Euro MP! 14,000 euros a month in salary and allowances - and the right to eject from the building any journalists who asks, never mind how politely, whether you actually showed up for work on days you claimed credit.")