Marta Andreassen was the EU’s former accountant, suspended for going public with her fears about the vulnerability of the EU’s budget to corruption, something to remember at a time when the EU bureaucracy is proposing additional regulations on company accounting.

Andreassen has now been formally fired. No surprise there, but the EU’s Commissioners have now become so comfortable in their unassailability that none of them – not one – bothered to ask her a single question at the final hearing on her case.