After the last EU Commission resigned in the wake of a corruption scandal, Romano Prodi, the incoming president of the new Commission, promised a new, cleaner organization. Not so long later the Commission’s Chief Accountant announced that the EU’s budget was ‘out of control…an open till waiting to be robbed.’ Naturally, she was suspended for this disgraceful piece of honesty. Now, after a suspiciously long delay, this whistleblower faces disciplinary proceedings. Her offense? Bringing the EU’s institutions “into disrepute”. That’s nonsense. They’ve done that for themselves.