KALLAS INTERVIEW – EU ANTI-FRAUD COMMISSIONER SPEAKS ON EUROSTAT, OLAF AND MORE
July 1st, 2006
BY KEITH NUTHALL and DAVID HAWORTH, in Brussels
SIIM Kallas is the first European Commission to have been appointed with the explicit job of fighting fraud in the European Union (EU). Every anti-fraud specialist knows that the complex and sometimes opaque procedures and administration of the EU can present a honeypot to fraudsters, and the EU has long had difficulty in nailing the problem. Mr Kallas' approach has been fresh in some regards, especially his pushing member states for more transparency on how they spend EU funds. He spoke to Fraud Intelligence from ...
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