On Thursday 15 March, the ombudsman of the European Union, Emily O'Reilly of Ireland, called upon the ethics committee of the European Commission to reinvestigate the case of José Manuel Barroso and review the matter of the professional activities of this former president of the European Commission, who now works for Goldman Sachs and is suspected of lobbying the Community institutions, even though he had undertaken not to do so.
A recent controversy surrounding a meeting between...