ANDREASEN VOTED DOWN AT EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT
July 1st, 2009
BY KEITH NUTHALL
FORMER European Commission chief accountant Marta Andreasen has been rebuffed trying to grab a senior position on the European Parliament's influential budgetary control committee. The newly-minted UK Independence Party MEP had stood to become a vice-chair, but she was voted down by the parliament's socialist and pro-federalist European People's Party group. Andreasen told journalists later "this is a measure of how much they fear me. My priority will always be transparency and accountability in public funds - this move shows ...
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