VAN BUITENEN NOT TO STAND AGAIN FOR EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT
February 1st, 2009
BY DAVID HAWORTH
THE BRUSSELS office for whistle-blower MEP Paul Van Buitenen told Accountancy Age that the Dutchman will not be standing for a second term of office on the European Parliament in June. The admission follows reports in the Amsterdam Telegraaf and Netherlands television that Van Buitenen was not planning to renew his electoral mandate. A formal statement from the MEP has been promised but is still awaited.
Van Buitenen is one of the most accountancy-literate lawmakers the EP possesses. He had a bookkeeping diploma and, before politics, was ...
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