The European Parliament has opened an investigation into allegations that three senior MEPs - all former government ministers - have accepted bribes in return for tabling amendments in the chamber intended to water down legislation regulating the financial industry.
The Commission last month approved former Commissioner Günter Verheugen’s involvement with the Germany-based European Experience Company - albeit with two conditions.
Paul the Clerck, ALTER-EU steering committee member comments on the European transparency register: "often the register's data is inaccurate, misleading or out-of-date."
Transparency campaigners have challenged the European Medicines Agency's (EMA) decision to allow its former executive director Thomas Lönngren to take up an advisory role in the private pharmaceutical sector.