EU OMBUDSMAN
July 1st, 2005
BY KEITH NUTHALLAN INVESTIGATION by the European Ombudsman has shown how a hastily composed e mail can get an employer in trouble. The European Union (EU) official has ruled the European Investment Bank (EIB) was guilty of maladministration and breaking his code of good administrative behaviour over two messages to a job applicant. He had sent application inquiries to 18 EIB heads of unit, which were forwarded to the bank's head of resources, prompting him to write (in French): "he has gone completely mad", a comment forwarded to the applicant. The head of ...
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