‘POLITICS’ BLOCKING EUROPE-WIDE FRAUD PUBLIC PROSECUTOR
April 11th, 2014
A NEW European Public Prosecutor's Office (EPPO) could have to share its competences with national governments for "political" reasons, the EU's senior anti-fraud official has predicted.Giovanni Kessler, director-general of the European Union (EU) anti-fraud office (OLAF), told members of the British House of Lords yesterday (Monday April 7) he believed it was unlikely member states would accept the European Commission's proposals for an EPPO, as they stood.Speaking by video-link to the house’s justice, institutions and consumer protection EU sub-committee, he ...
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