Brussels, 17/06/2014 (Agence Europe) - Competition Commissioner Joaquin Almunia was blunt - being from Bilbao and a former minister in the Spanish government that gave tax incentives to four football clubs does not amount to a conflict of interests in his current job as commissioner dealing with complaints about those very tax incentives.
On Monday 16 June, the European Ombudsman, Emily O'Reilly, published an exchange of letters with Almunia in December 2013 following the European...