Barroso joins Goldman Sachs, drawing ethics criticism
On 8 July 2016 Goldman Sachs hired José Manuel Barroso as non-executive chairman of its international arm; an EU ethics committee later said he showed poor judgment but broke no rules.
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On 8 July 2016 Goldman Sachs hired José Manuel Barroso as non-executive chairman of its international arm; an EU ethics committee later said he showed poor judgment but broke no rules.
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José Manuel Barroso
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Barroso joins Goldman Sachs, drawing ethics criticism. Actor role on this event; contribution size permanently_blocked (no sourced fraction). Contribution size is permanently_blocked (no sourced fraction); provisional 0.4 stored because contributions.size is NOT NULL.
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- 1.gavi.orgchecked 2026-10-15 GET 200, final URL = original (no non-trivial redirect), claim in text: barroso+goldman · verified
- 2.theguardian.comchecked 2026-10-15 GET 200, final URL = original (no non-trivial redirect), claim in text: barroso+commission · verified
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Factrail. (2026). Barroso joins Goldman Sachs, drawing ethics criticism. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/barroso-joins-goldman-sachs-2016-07-08
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Accessed 16 October 2026.
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