The European Parliament has dismissed a request by the European Ombudsman to publish documents related to office expenses, requested by EUobserver.
The previous parliament president, centre-right Italian Antonio Tajani, signed a letter dated 1 July, to ombudsman Emily O'Reilly, saying the parliament "respectfully disagrees" with her.
The nub of the argument is that parliament questions whether the ombudsman had the right to criticise the institution's "margin of discretion" in dec...
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