On March 1st 2007, the European Commission for the first time ever published a list of the names and mandates of special advisers to EU Commissioners, 55 in total. Some weeks before, Commissioner Siim Kallas had announced that the contract with Commissioner Andris Piebalgs' special adviser, Rolf Linkohr, was terminated after Mr. Linkohr had failed to declare that he had no conflict of interest. In the list of special advisers, the name of Mr. Etienne Davignon (the former chairman of the European Roundtable of Industrialists, now a board member of water multinational Suez) stands out as an another case where conflicts of interest seem very likely to occur.
To read more about this important steps towards transparency and the cases of conflicts of interest and fraud that have surfaced since the release of the list, go to:
http://www.corporateeurope.org/specialadvisers.html
Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO)
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e-mail: ceo@corporateeurope.org
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http://www.waterjustice.org
To read more about this important steps towards transparency and the cases of conflicts of interest and fraud that have surfaced since the release of the list, go to:
http://www.corporateeurope.org/specialadvisers.html
Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO)
De Wittenstraat 25
1052 AK Amsterdam
Netherlands
tel: +31-20-612-7023
e-mail: ceo@corporateeurope.org
http://www.corporateeurope.org
http://www.eulobbytours.org
http://www.waterjustice.org