Candidates to be the EU’s next Ombudsman are already complaining about a lack of transparency from Brussels – in their own recruitment process. Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) will vote in December on who should succeed Emily O’Reilly, who since 2013 has been responsible for probing maladministration in EU institutions. Her would-be replacements are quickly learning what life is like at the sharp end of Brussels bureaucracy. “The process was not 100% transparent … It was not an easy one to get all the information” about how and when she needed to gain MEPs’ support, Claudia Mahler,…