GREEN VAN BUITENEN
July 1st, 2004
BY KEITH NUTHALLDUTCH anti-corruption maverick Paul van Buitenen has joined forces with the Green group in the European Parliament, albeit as independent MEP. He demanded a seat commanded by the Green/European Free Alliance on the parliament's influential budgetary affairs committee as his price for joining the group. Speaking at a press conference, Van Buitenen said: "I can deliver my promises in this group. It will be a workable situation." He had held negotiations with the eurosceptic Group for a Europe of Democracies and Diversities (EDD), but was deterred by ...
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