Transparency campaigners say a new ethics body proposed by the European Commission will do little to prevent corruption at the EU institutions.
The body's architecture, outlined on Thursday (8 June) by the commission, comes six months after allegations of a €1.5m Qatari-linked corruption affair involving former European Parliament vice-president Eva Kaili.
Věra Jourová, the EU commissioner in charge of transparency, told reporters...
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Nikolaj joined EUobserver in 2012 and covers home affairs. He is originally from Denmark, but spent much of his life in France and in Belgium. He was awarded the King Baudouin Foundation grant for investigative journalism in 2010.