PODGER REPLACEMENT
August 1st, 2005
BY KEITH NUTHALLAN UNUSUAL public row over appointing a replacement for the outgoing European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) executive director Geoffrey Podger is embittering relations between Brussels senior bureaucrats. The spat has been sparked by European Commission attempts to control the appointment, ahead of Mr Podger's planned November departure to head Britain's Health and Safety Executive (HSE). The Commission's senior officials have been pressing for standard Brussels appointment procedures to apply, which would mean a new EFSA executive director could ...
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