Brussels, 18/07/2011 (Agence Europe) - European Commission rules for dealing with possible conflicts of interest involving the tasks of special advisers and their outside activities have to be improved. That is the substance of the opinion delivered by European Ombudsman Nikiforos Diamandouros on Monday 18 July. He made some suggestions as to how this improvement might be achieved.
From 2007 to 2010, former president of the European Parliament Pat Cox acted as an unpaid special adviser to...