Full disclosure is a must for EU commissioners

mkpdavies · 25-11-2004, 03:42 AM

http://news.ft.com/cms/s/85aaf92a-3e...00e2511c8.html

This bit made me laugh

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The UK has mandatory disclosure regulations and as a result our politics remains among the cleanest in Europe. I strongly believe the transparency and disclosure standards used in Westminster are vitally needed in Brussels. Full disclosure should be mandatory for leading commissioners, as well as for high-placed European parliamentarians such as committee chairmen and group leaders, and should include membership of any secret societies.

It is only through full transparency that we can ensure that the EU remains a true democracy.

EU remain a democracy,

it hasn't even started being one yet, and never will!

Sciurus · 25-11-2004, 08:41 PM

This could prove interesting!

So Neelie Kroes would have to disclose more than her 3 pages of business interests?

And the ex-communist apparatchiks would need to disclose what they were up to before the Soviet Union collapsed?

Of course, there's always Mandelson's disclosures to keep us entertained.

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25-11-2004, 08:41 PM	#2 (permalink)
Sciurus Junior Member Join Date: Nov 2004 Posts: 66	This could prove interesting! So Neelie Kroes would have to disclose more than her 3 pages of business interests? And the ex-communist apparatchiks would need to disclose what they were up to before the Soviet Union collapsed? Of course, there's always Mandelson's disclosures to keep us entertained.