EUROSTAT DENIALS
June 1st, 2003
BY ALAN OSBORNTHE EUROPEAN Commission has become embroiled in a new controversyover its handling of allegations of fraud at Eurostat, the EU's statisticaloffice, and could face a committee of inquiry in the European Parliament.During appearances before the budgetary control committee of the parliamentthis week, commissioners Pedro Solbes (monetary affairs) Michaele Schreyer(budget), and Neil Kinnock (administrative reform) said flatly they knewnothing until very recently of an alleged "vast conspiracy of looting" bytop Eurostat officials but MEPs of all parties ...
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