He decided this because the European Commission has for a month not responding to a complaint on its own initiative 45 social democratic Meps about Kroes.
“From the Bahama Leaks was obvious that Crucible of 2000 to 2009 was director of an offshore company on the Bahamas. That is completely at odds with the existing code of conduct of the European Commission. Now the commission, which matter on its course of late, we would like the opinion of the European Ombudsvrouw", says Tang.
Because of the danger of a conflict of interest is too big, the code of conduct for current and former EU commissioners be firmly tightened, to find the Meps. “Big companies seem to be now, with their millions of political influence to buy. Because of this, the credibility of the European Commission on the game", says Tang.
Barroso
The internal ethical committee of the European Commission already has an investigation running into the case-Kroes. Earlier the bow is about Kroes' former boss in Brussels, former european commission president José Manuel Barroso, who this summer at the American bank Goldman Sachs is going to work.
According to the committee, which, among others, the Dutch ex-judge Christiaan Timmermans plenary session, Barroso insufficient “critical power”, but he has the rules are not being violated.
The current commission president, Jean-Claude Juncker, has recently promised that his proposals will come to the code of conduct more stringent.
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