BERLUSCONI CASE
October 1st, 2004
BY KEITH NUTHALLCHANGES made by Italy's prime minister Silvio Berlusconi to his country's accounting laws, helping him fight charges of false accounting in his many businesses, break European Union (EU) law a senior European Court of Justice (ECJ) official has advised.Advocate general Juliane Kokott said that although EU member countries have significant leeway in framing accounting regulations, they could not push the envelope like Mr Berlusconi's right-wing coalition government. Kokott argued that by limiting the time for bringing false accounting charges and ...
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