EUROSTAT SCANDAL
September 1st, 2003 BY KEITH NUTHALLEUROPEAN Commission president Romano Prodi is preparing for intense questioning at the European Parliament today (Thurs25/10) over the Eurostat affair, a day after MEPs were to be given two key papers on the embarrassing scandal.He will fear anger from EP budgetary control committee members should a report from the Commission's Internal Audit Service into the award of contracts and grants by the EU statistical agency from 1999 to 2002 be damning. Its release coincides with the publication of another paper, by a special Brussels Task Force, into ...
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