COR EXPENSES FIDDLING
October 1st, 2003
BY ALAN OSBORNTHE BUDGETARY control committee of the European Parliament will demand next week a full explanation from the European Union's (EU) Committee of the Regions (CoR) into allegations that it has "failed to properly apply the rules on the reimbursement of travel expenses and other financial rules." Following investigations by the European Court of Auditors and the European Commission's anti-fraud office (OLAF), the Committee of the Regions president Sir Albert Bore has claimed: "No fraud has been detected in the CoR." He did however admit that "errors ...
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