OLAF FOCUSES RESOURCES AS SPENDING LIKLEY TO BE CAPPED – ANNUAL REPORT
July 1st, 2012
BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union (EU) anti-fraud office OLAF is concentrating its resources, anticipating it will not receive additional spending from cash-strapped EU governments. Writing in OLAF's latest annual report (on 2011), its director general Giovanni Kessler said: "Due to the general economic climate, the human and financial resources available to OLAF are not expected to increase in the future." His appointment last February (2011) sparked a review of OLAF operations, noted the report, aimed at "better defining responsibilities and ...
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