Fernand Kartheiser, a non-attached MEP, has asked the European Commission to implement a recent General Court ruling on administrative transparency and to raise the remuneration of its staff in Luxembourg to at least the minimum social wage for qualified workers, matching the practice already in place at the European Parliament and the Court of Justice. The question, submitted on 13 July 2026, also requests that the Commission index its pay calculation to Luxembourg's inflation rate.
The parliamentary question follows the General Court's judgment of 17 June 2026 in Case T-121/25, Asma Gharbi v European Commission, which reaffirmed that any administrative decision affecting staff rights must be reasoned clearly, precisely, and transparently. Kartheiser's first query asks how the Commission will implement this transparency obligation in its relations with its agents.
The MEP's second and third questions target concrete policy changes: adjusting Luxembourg-based staff pay to at least the minimum social wage for qualified workers, and indexing the remuneration calculation to Luxembourg's inflation rate. Kartheiser notes that the European Parliament and the Court of Justice already apply such a minimum wage floor.
The Commission is expected to reply within approximately six weeks. Its answer will signal whether it intends to align its pay policy with the other institutions and how it plans to operationalise the transparency ruling. The questions affect EU staff in Luxembourg, the Commission's human resources policy, and the principle of equal treatment among EU institutions.