WHISTLEBLOWER MEP SLAMS ‘ILL-CONCEIVED’ EU FRAUD OFFICE
December 1st, 2008
BY CHRIS JONES and DAVID HAWORTH
PAUL van Buitenen, the notorious Brussels whistleblower and sleaze-buster, has announced he will not stand for re-election as an MEP when his current term comes to an end in June.
There will be relief amongst the complacent and unworthy in all the European Union (EU) institutions that he has decided to chuck it after only five years as a parliamentarian.
To the powers that be the Dutchman has been an unwelcome pest since his revelations of cronyism in the European Commission led to the downfall of its president Jacques Santer and ...
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