Brussels, 04/02/2011 (Agence Europe) - A number of MEPs, among them Ingeborg Grässle (EPP, Germany), Irish Labour member Nessa Childers and Lothar Bisky (GUE/NGL, Germany), recommend a reform of the system of allowances which can be paid to former European commissioners and a tightening-up of the code of conduct to which they are subject.
Grässle particularly hit out at the system of interim allowances (over three years) received by former commissioners. Problems arise when a former...