On Thursday 8 June, the European Commission unveiled its proposal to set up, via an Interinstitutional Agreement, a European Ethics Body that would be limited to drawing up common standards on ethics and integrity in public life, which the participating EU institutions and bodies would be responsible for applying to their own political leaders, but not to staff.
Our proposal aims, “for the first time of the history of the EU [to] create a truly interinstitutional body to raise the...