EUROSTAT SCANDAL
October 1st, 2003
BY KEITH NUTHALLTHE CURRENT European Commission leadership, under Italy's Romano Prodi, was supposed to be the clean-hands team, ridding the institution of the corruption and mismanagement that thrived under his predecessor Jacques Santer. The ongoing Eurostat scandal is undermining that reputation. Keith Nuthall reports.WHEN Commission president Prodi appeared before the European Parliament last month (Oct), he was understandably expecting a rough ride. The hearing came a day after MEPs were to be given two key papers on the embarrassing scandal. They detailed ...
Full access to this article can be arranged with permission from the client that first ordered it. Please contact us to request access. Entries are uploaded to our archive at least one year after being published by a client – free access is restricted to International News Services journalists for background research only. The article date indicates when copy was filed to a client, not when posted to this archive. Upon client requests, International News Services will remove such articles from the archive or not upload them in the first place. They are included to demonstrate the breadth of topics undertaken by the agency and also to help promote clients’ coverage.