From Integration to Integrity Administrative Ethics and Reform in the European Commission

by Cini, Michelle

• ISBN13: 9780719065057
• ISBN10: 0719065054
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-11-01
• Publisher: Manchester University Press

Summary

This book is the first to examine how the European Commission has addressed concerns about its ethical standards since 1999. This is an important subject, as it deals with many of the concerns that ordinary citizens raise with regard to the European institutions, particularly in the popular press, where references to the European gravy train, to instances of nepotism or patronage, and even corruption and fraud are commonplace. Despite this, there has been no study of the European institutions themselves to question the validity of these claims, or, as in this case, to explore the extent to which the European Commission has been able to respond to and resolve such problems and/or criticism.

Author Biography

Michelle Cini is Reader in European Studies in the Department of Politics, University of Bristol.

Table of Contents

List of tables	p. vii
Acknowledgements	p. ix
List of abbreviations	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
Research context and framework	p. 4
The resignation of the European Commission	p. 27
Administrative reform	p. 58
The Eurostat affair	p. 81
Promoting ethics in the College of Commissioners	p. 108
Control, socialisation and ethics reform in the Commission's services	p. 122
Beyond control: reporting, investigating and sanctioning wrongdoing in the European Commission	p. 152
Extending the ethics infrastructure: from European transparency initiative to common ethical space?	p. 180
Conclusion	p. 199
References	p. 217
Index	p. 233
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