Former president of the European Commission José Manuel Barroso did not violate the integrity and reserve rules laid down in the commissioners’ code of conduct when he accepted a highly controversial job at investment bank Goldman Sachs, but his choice was unwise, said the European Commission’s ad hoc ethics committee in a report dated Wednesday 26 October that was made public on Monday 31 October(see EUROPE 11639).
Based on information provided by Barroso in a letter to the current...