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In response to allegations of corruption by current and former members of the European Parliament, the Parliament's President set out draft proposals to improve the oversight and enforcement of the Parliament’s ethics rules. Following this, the European Ombudsman wrote to the Parliament's president, welcoming her initiative and sharing some observations on how to further improve the Parliaments et...

The Ombudsman has opened an initiative to assess how the European Commission ensures respect for human rights in the context of EU trade policy. The initiative aims to examine the use of so-called ‘human rights clauses’ in international trade agreements signed by the EU, as well as to look at how human rights are dealt with once trade agreements have entered into force. Based on the findings over ...

The complainant, a non-governmental organisation active in the area of civil liberties, asked the European External Action Service's (EEAS) to give it public access to documents related to the surveillance system used to secure its building. The EEAS refused to grant access to the documents. In doing so, it invoked an exception under the EU legislation on public access to documents, arguing that d...