Former Commissioner Thierry Breton’s new lobbying activities for Bank of America

Question for written answer E-000358/2025 to the Commission Rule 144 Pascale Piera (PfE), Anne-Sophie Frigout (PfE), Marie-Luce Brasier-Clain (PfE), Mathilde Androuët (PfE), Catherine Griset (PfE), Julie Rechagneux (PfE), Christophe Bay (PfE), Séverine Werbrouck (PfE), Jean-Paul Garraud (PfE), Malika Sorel (PfE), Aleksandar Nikolic (PfE), Julien Sanchez (PfE), Elisabeth Dieringer (PfE), Tomáš Kubín (PfE), Barbara Bonte (PfE), Anna Bryłka (PfE), Nikola Bartůšek (PfE), Ton Diepeveen (PfE), Jorge Martín Frías (PfE), Jorge Buxadé Villalba (PfE), Ondřej Knotek (PfE), Tomasz Froelich (ESN), Markus Buchheit (ESN), Hans Neuhoff (ESN), Erik Kaliňák (NI), Katarína Roth Neveďalová (NI), Diana Iovanovici Şoşoacă (NI), Kateřina Konečná (NI), Nicolas Bay (ECR), Fernand Kartheiser (ECR) Subject: Former Commissioner Thierry Breton’s new lobbying activities for Bank of America On 15 January 2025, the Commission gave the green light for Thierry Breton’s new role lobbying for the Global Advisory Board of Bank of America1. However, according to Articles 245 and 339 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, as a former European Commissioner, he is bound by ‘the duty to behave with integrity and discretion’ and to ‘not disclose information’ covered by the obligation of professional secrecy, including post term of office. The Commission’s Ethical Committee rightly pointed out in its opinion that there is nevertheless ‘a link between former Commissioner Breton’s portfolio...