NEW OLAF DIRECTOR GENERAL EU COUNCIL OF MINISTERS CHOICE BRUNER
January 1st, 2006
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission is arranging a tripartite meeting with the European Parliament and the European Union (EU) Council of Ministers to agree a director to lead the EU's anti-fraud unit OLAF over the next five years. A senior Brussels official said the meeting could be held this month, after the EU Council of Ministers chose as its top choice Alain Gillette, a Frenchman, of the UN Board of Auditors. This decision makes it even less likely that the current German incumbent Franz-Hermann Brüner will be reappointed, as the European Parliament ...
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