My friend Jo Carey, who has died aged 88, was a leading member of the pioneering generation of civil servants finding their way round the EU in the first 20 years of Britain’s membership. He was UK member of the European Court of Auditors from 1984 to 1992.
The son of Celia (nee Conway) and Richard Carey, a teacher at Rugby school, Jo went to Rugby, then studied classics at Balliol College, Oxford. He undertook the Russia course of the Joint Services School for Linguists, based at Bodmin, in Cornwall, during national service in the early 1950s.
