"Revolving doors": Ombudsman will step up supervision of senior EU officials

Date of article: 23/09/2014

Daily News of: 23/09/2014

Country:  EUROPE

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Article language: en

The European Ombudsman, Emily O'Reilly, has called on the European Commission to make its review processes on "revolving doors" cases more robust to avoid conflicts of interest. She has also called on the Commission to regularly publish online all relevant information as regards senior EU officials, including their names, who leave to work outside the EU administration. This follows complaints from five NGOs and the Ombudsman's inspection of 54 "revolving doors" files.

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