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Too many lawmakers in Austria?

hermann, mattFebruary 3, 2012

In the face of the debt crisis European governments are under pressure to save money. The Austrians have come up with a way to tighten the financial belt - by getting rid of parliamentarians. They say there too many MPs sitting around in Vienna doing nothing.

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But when it comes to having a lot of MPs, Austria's not even close to the extreme. In Greece and Italy, for instance - countries that endanger the very solvency of Europe -, there are many more lawmakers per capita ... Kerry Skyring reports from Vienna.