MEPs meeting in Strasbourg on Wednesday 15 March debated the need for an immediate reform of the Commission’s internal rules to ensure transparency, after its Director-General for Transport, Henrik Hololei, in the midst of negotiating an aviation agreement with Qatar (see EUROPE B13135A18), accepted that several of his trips to the Gulf country were paid for by Doha.
Some MEPs, such as Karima Delli (Greens/EFA, French), expressed their incomprehension that the format of this type of...