Luxembourg, 23/02/2006 (Agence Europe) - Advocate General Geelhoed has just underlined that persons holding high office must not only be regarded as competent from a professional point of view, but are also seen as being of irreproachable behaviour and that Edith Cresson, former European Commissioner, accused of favouritism, be deprived of 50% of her Commissioner's pension rights.
In his lengthy conclusions, Leendert Geelhoed drafted a communiqué in which he emphasised that it is in this...