EP BUDGET COMMITTEE

BY KEITH NUTHALLEUROPEAN Commission vice president Neil Kinnock can breath a sigh of relief after yesterday's (Monday24) vote by the European Parliament's budget control committee to recommend the discharge of the European Union's year 2001 accounts. The decision brings to an end concerns that the committee would withhold consent because of revelations about mismanagement that Kinnock is alleged to have ignored, notably those made by whistle-blower and former chief accountant Marta Andreason, now suspended from her job.Ironically, in its concluding remarks, the ...


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