Ref. Ares(2016)2856171 - 20/06/2016
From:
CAB JUNCKER PRESIDENT
Sent:
20 June 2016 09:45
To:
CAB JUNCKER ARCHIVES
Subject:
FW: Open Letter
Attachments:
Memo Style-Simon Mordue.pdf; Jurnalul National 19 October
2009.pdf
From: Arun
Dohle [mailto:xxxxxxxxx@xxxxx.xxx]
Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2016 2:58 PM
To: CAB JUNCKER PRESIDENT; MOGHERINI Federica (CAB-MOGHERINI); FRANS TIMMERMANS
CONTACT; CAB GEORGIEVA WEBPAGE; CAB ANSIP WEB; CAB SEFCOVIC WEB; CAB
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Subject: RE: Open Letter
Dear Members of the European Commission,
On 16.05.2016 I sent all members of the European Commission an open letter about the
situation of the whistle-blower Mrs. Roelie Post.
Within a week I received an email from the assistant of the Commission’s Mediator
informing me that the Mediator’s office would contact Mrs. Post. I then called him and
informed him that Mrs. Post has no access to her Commission email and that’s she is
living in hiding. I suggested him to contact either the Medical Service or DG NEAR, as
both have her private email address.
Few days back, I asked my former colleague Mrs. Post whether she was contacted by the
Mediator. Her reply was: “no”.
In my letter I indeed asked for a solution of a personnel matter. But, I also informed you
about the broader issue: the way children’s rights were dealt with by the previous
Commissions. That needs to be repaired.
I wrote to you as a matter of last resort and sincerely expect the College to deal with the
issue and not the Commission services.
The Secretary General organised the secondment of Mrs Post to ACT. The Mediation
Service is situated within the Secretariat General. On top of that, the Deputy Secretary
General was responsible for DG JUST during the time when the irregularities took place
(Director and acting Director General). So there is a double conflict of interest.
The below video is just one of the many examples of the proof we have: here in this
video from the EP Petition meeting in 2011. It is clear that DG JUST acted as advocate for
the “lobby”:
https://youtu.be/jexzBrBZoko
Children´s rights are a technical issue. However the issue has been politicised by the
European institutions, leading now to this situation for Mrs. Post. The two issues are
inseparably linked.
It is not just a “personnel matter”, which can be thrown back to the lowest levels of the
Commission services.
Please confirm receipt of this mail individually. I take note that I did not get any
confirmation of receipt for my first email, apart from an automatic reply of the Cabinet
Hahn.
Yours sincerely,
Arun Dohle
From: Arun Do
hle [mailto:xxxxxxxxx@xxxxx.xxx]
Sent: Montag, 16. Mai 2016 18:39
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Subject: Open Letter
Dear Members of the European Commission,
I am writing to you all as a matter of last resort.
Simon Mordue, as Member of Cabinet of VP Verheugen, and the former Secretary
General of the European Commission, Catherine Day, arranged in 2007/2009 that Mrs.
Roelie Post should “in the interest of the service” be seconded to an NGO which she had
to set up herself (respective documents, correspondence etc. can be provided on request).
I work for this NGO – Foundation Against Child Trafficking (ACT) since then.
Since two years I have been trying to get an appointment with Simon Mordue, director at
DG NEAR, to discuss this secondment, as well as children’s rights.
The refusal of Mr. Mordue to meet with me, or communicate in any manner, is non-
acceptable, but exemplary for how the Commission treated and treats one of its staff
members.
When Mrs. Post received the attached allegedly private email, she was working for ACT,
seconded by the Commission in the interest of the service, and thus naturally shared this
email with me, her colleague. Content wise the email is certainly not private, but clearly
work related.
The message given by Mr. Mordue “Message of boss [VP Verheugen] to you is keep
fighting.”, is one of the many messages we received and which kept us indeed fighting
rather successfully against a “European Adoption Policy” (now re-emerging under the
name “cross border adoptions”.
Apart from being of motivational character, this message is an acknowledgement of
something going seriously wrong inside the EU Commission.
The message was about a press article which detailed corruption in the Commission
related to pressure to reopen adoptions from Romania. This pressure is till today ongoing.
Today the EU Commission doesn´t even acknowledge that there was and is an issue. Her
secondment ended in August 2014 and her reintegration into DG NEAR went fully
wrong. Side-lined, mobbed. Forcing the whistleblower Mrs Roelie Post into invalidity on
psychiatric grounds (paranoia) just like in 2007, under threat of 100 percent cutting of her
salary.
I herewith kindly request you to find a solution for Mrs. Post, so that she can get out of
the service after 33 years, without literally landing up under the bridge, or worse…
One possible solution is that you grant her leave in the interest of the service under Art.
42c of the staff regulations.
It is crystal clear by now, that the EU Commission did not want her back inside.
Kindly acknowledge receipt of my email individually, and inform me timely about the
actions taken.
I am at your disposal if you require further information.
Yours sincerely,
Arun Dohle
www.againstchildtrafficking.org
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