KALLAS APPOINTMENT
September 1st, 2004
BY KEITH NUTHALLTHE NEW European Commission taking office from November will include for the first time a Commissioner specifically dedicated to fighting European Union (EU) fraud and handling audits. New Commission president Jose Manuel Barroso has appointed an Estonian, Silim Kallas, a former prime minister and finance minister. As the Bank of Estonia's first post-Soviet president, he introduced the Estonian Kroon, pegged to the Deutschmark (now it shadows the Euro). It was then however, that his personal probity was challenged in court, over allegations he was ...
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