Good afternoon - EU civil servants were sanctioned in 2017 for cheating its benefits system, brawling with colleagues and bullying junior staff, the Telegraph's Brexit bulletin can reveal.
Disciplinary records show that 12 civil servants employed by the European Commission were punished for misconduct, while another 11 escaped with a formal warning. In three separate cases, civil servants were demoted after it emerged that they had lied or omitted key details about their financial circumstances to access extra benefits funded by European taxpayers.
One of those officials was found to have received "substantial financial benefits over several years to which they were not entitled." In another...