NEW EU COMMISSION FACES MAJOR ANTI-FRAUD CHALLENGE
November 1st, 2019
With a new European Commission about to take office (probably on December 1, one month late, with three proposed nominees being rejected by MEPs), one key challenge will be pushing fraud out of the European Union (EU). It is still a huge problem, with in 2018, 1,152 frauds detected and reported. Keith Nuthall reports.
The EU has been fighting fraud for decades. An anti-fraud unit (UCLAF) was created in the European Commission during 1988. It became independent and was renamed OLAF in 1999 (a French acronym for ‘office for the fight against fraud’). And a ...
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