The EU really is a joke. I think if people want to hide stuff like revenge porn, or obvious slander, then fair enough. But unindexing legitimate journalism is stupid.
I think there are games being played here. The European Court ruled that some things should be made harder to find (revenge porn, obvious slander, spent convictions etc.). Google don't want to do this and are trying to make a mockery of the ruling removing from the results anything that they are asked to as long as it is about a person with the very aim of stirring a backlash against the ruling. Requests to take down…
Google representative on the radio today indicated that the search result suppressed is the name of one of the thread's commenters and not for the bank executive's name which will still return the correct link.
Given this my comment is probably too harsh, there is no evidence that Google isn't properly assessing requests that I am aware of.