BRUSSELS DEMANDS INVESTIGATIVE POWERS FOR EUROSTAT
March 1st, 2010
BY KEITH NUTHALL
MISLEADING past data released by Greek governments about the country's finances has sparked European Commission into proposing additional investigative powers for Eurostat, the European Union's (EU) statistical agency. Brussels has asked EU ministers to give Eurostat "additional rights of access" to "central, state, local and social security" public authority accounts. This would include "underlying detailed accounting information, relevant statistical surveys and questionnaires..." The powers would enable Eurostat ...
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