CRESSON ESCAPES ECJ PUNISHMENT OVER DENTIST CORRUPTION
July 1st, 2006
BY KEITH NUTHALL
DISGRACED former European Commissioner and French prime minister Edith Cresson has escaped being punished by the European Court of Justice (ECJ) for breaking European Commission behaviour standards by hiring her dentist and close friend as a personal advisor. Although the court found Cresson in "breach of her obligations of a certain degree of gravity", it however rejected a call from an ECJ advocate general that she lose half her EU pension. "The finding of breach constitutes, of itself, an appropriate penalty", concluded ...
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