KINNOCK ESCAPE

Keith NuthallMr Neil Kinnock, vice-president of the European Commission, appearslikely to escape any censure by the European Parliament over the so-calledAndreason affair and the matter is now expected to be put finally to restnext week. Mr Kinnock has come under fire over attacks on the Commission'saccounting procedures by its former chief accountant Marta Andreason whowas suspended from her post by Mr Kinnock last year.The EP's budgetary control committee was to have voted yesterday onwhether or not to discharge the Commission accounts for 2001 but the votewas ...


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