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They are “clever individuals — however they’re not elected,” she added.
“The tradition at all times comes from the highest,” O’Reilly stated, referring to a scarcity of transparency within the EU govt. She added that if data is being “held again for political causes and that tradition comes from the highest — then yeah, it most likely is the president [von der Leyen] and her cupboard who’re setting the tradition.”
She referred to as out the Commission’s reticence in terms of handing over paperwork, saying the development is “worrying.”
“You can perceive the frustration once we patiently for months undergo an entry to paperwork case, we’re quoting [European Court of Justice] legislation, we’re doing all of this — and so they nonetheless say no,” she stated. “That is irritating.”
The ombudsman’s position throughout the EU is to uphold transparency norms and root out potential conflicts of curiosity, together with between trade and the EU establishments. But its judgments are non-binding and on the mercy of those self same establishments to implement them.
O’Reilly, who hails from Ireland and was the EU’s first feminine ombudsman, might be changed by Teresa Anjinho, Portugal’s former justice minister. Anjinho was accredited by the European Parliament in a majority vote.
