On Wednesday 21 December, the former European Commissioner Neelie Kroes was given an official reprimand by the European Commission for receiving employment income in 2015, even though she was in receipt of a transition allowance paid by the institution at the time.
Kroes was a member of the Commission between 2004 and 2014. She was reprimanded because in a statement signed in January 2016, she omitted to declare her 2015 income to the Commission, even though she accepted her transition...