If Health Commissioner John Dalli had to resign because of undisclosed meetings with tobacco lobbyists, shouldn’t the same logic apply to high-level Commission officials in Barroso’s cabinet, at the Secretariat-General and other DGs?
Between a destroyed economy, blatant institutional dysfunction and fledging popular support, the current picture of the EU looks bleak. But it is not the end of the Union yet!
Aviation has – and has had for some time – an emissions problem. That problem was illustrated in dramatic fashion…
Around 97 full-time lobbyists defend the interests of the tobacco industry in Brussels, and the industry’s total annual lobbying budget in the EU capital exceeds €5.3 million, according to entries in the EU’s voluntary Transparency Register and conservative estimates. But these figures are only the tip of the iceberg.
I was minding my own business on the London Underground last Friday when I glanced at one of those free…