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BY ALAN OSBORN
MARTA Andreasen, the European Commission’s former chief accountant who was sacked in November, has been offered a glimmer of hope for re-instatement in her old job by the new Barroso Commission, which has just taken office in Brussels.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
FEW whistle-blowers have hit the headlines as much as accountant Marta Andreasen who was suspended by the European Commission in 2002 after disclosing serious weaknesses in its bookkeeping system and has now just been formally sacked.

Of all those who have taken the brave and often lonely path of public disclosure, Ms Andreasen, as the Commission’s former chief accounting officer, is by far the most senior.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
CHRIS Dickson, the Executive counsel of the Accountant’s Joint Disciplinary Scheme, spoke powerfully in defence of the European Commission’s sacked chief accountant Marta Andreasen at her disciplinary hearing in Brussels last month, Accountancy Age can reveal.

He represented her pro bono publico, appealing for her reinstatement in front of the entire outgoing Commission, a call that fell on deaf ears, with her former employers later ordering her dismissal.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
MARTA ANDREASEN, former chief accountant of the European Commission, expects to hear in a matter of days whether or not she is to be dismissed for breaching staff regulations, she said today (Thurs 30-9). Ms Andreasen has been suspended for over two years following her public disclosures of serious weaknesses in the Commission’s accounting procedures and an internal Commission disciplinary board has recommended her dismissal.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THE NEW president of the European Commission, the former Portuguese prime minister Jose Manuel Barroso, has made clear that for the next five years at least there will be a reform-minded team at work in Brussels driven by a powerful desire to eliminate accounting fraud, inefficiency and the protection of special interests.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
FORMER European Commission Chief Accountant Marta Andreasen is finally set to learn the outcome of her long-running disciplinary proceedings, sparked by her suspension in 2002 for whistle-blowing. Brussels is expected to take action based on the recommendations of a disciplinary board headed by the ex-president of the European Court of Justice’s Court of First Instance, José Luis da Cruz Vilaça.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
CELEBRATED European Union (EU) whistleblower Paul van Buitenen has been elected to the European Parliament, daring the European Commission to sack him for the criticisms he made of the EU in his election manifesto. More a book than a policy platform, van Buitenen laid into his former boss Neil Kinnock, who he has accused of erecting “hoax” accounting reforms to the much-criticised EU.…

BY DAVID HAWORTH, in Brussels
MICHAEL Mann, European Commission vice president Neil Kinnock’s spokesman has takes issue with the suggestion raised by former chief auditor Jules Muis in an exclusive interview with Accountancy Age that difficulties foreseen in Brussels internal controls White Paper have been underestimated by the Prodi regime.…

BY DAVID HAWORTH, in Brussels
THE EUROPEAN Commission’s much-heralded financial reforms will not be fully realised for at least another five years, possibly later, according to Jules Muis, the Commission’s former chief internal auditor.

“Although progress has been made, the Commission has a long way to go before it can present an image of being a world class administrative machine,” he told Accountancy Age during a brief return to the Belgian capital.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
HIGH-PROFILE European Commission whistleblower Paul van Buitenen will reveal a litany of European Union (EU) scandals and corruption cases when he releases his programme this month for the oncoming European elections. Exploiting rules that allow European Commission officials to stand for the parliament and make detailed election statements, van Buitenen is publishing a book ‘In the Trenches of Brussels’ on April 28, which will officially be his election manifesto.…