KALLAS HEARING
October 1st, 2004
BY KEITH NUTHALLTHE EUROPEAN Union's (EU) first dedicated anti-fraud Commissioner has promised to review the structure of complex accounting rules erected at the European Commission in the past five years to prevent corruption and mismanagement scandals. Estonia's Siim Kallas accepted that some rules created by the outgoing Prodi Commission, especially vice-president Neil Kinnock, "could be simplified" as they "seem to be complicated". Speaking to a European Parliament hearing ahead of his taking office on November 1, Kallas said he would organise a conference ...
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