EU STAFF FIGHT BACK AT BARROSO GOLDMAN APPOINTMENT

Publication date:

Tuesday, October 11, 2016

Author:

Sarah Collins

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euranetplus-inside

EU staff have handed in a petition with more than 150,000 signatures calling for former President Barroso to be stripped of his pension rights and honorary titles after his appointment to the board of Goldman Sachs.

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Disgruntled EU civil servants are demanding the Commission change its ethics code and impose stricter sanctions on former officials that breach it.

They handed in a petition with over 150,000 signatures to all three EU institutions on Wednesday (October 12) to protest former Commission President José Manuel Barroso’s recent appointment to the board of US investment bank Goldman Sachs.

Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) from the United Left group led a protest outside the Commission’s Berlaymont headquarters to tie in with the handover, donning masks of Barroso and former commissioners Neelie Kroes and Karel De Gucht, who have also been implicated in revolving doors scandals.

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