OLAF REFORM PROCESS APPROACHES DECISION TIME

BY KEITH NUTHALL WHILE the European Union's (EU) anti-fraud agency OLAF had a difficult birth in 1999, its childhood and developing adolescence have been easier, and this important organisation has become increasingly effective. It was never going to be an easy job investigating fraud in a polity as diverse as the EU, but given the unhealthy levels of fraud and financial mismanagement in EU budgets and its earmarked customs duty income, OLAF has to exist: someone has to investigate EU fraud. The question of course is how should it operate and this has been ...


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