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‘Smoke Signals’ has premiered in Strasbourg, seat of the European Parliament in France, where a crusading MEP is pitted against the European Commission in defence of the disgraced John Dalli
Knives are back out for Barroso, the former EU Commission chief, after a Belgian court found his top sleuth guilty of gross misconduct in the biggest EU scandal before Qatargate.
Josep Borrell, the EU's foreign policy chief, is currently drawing a pension from a European Parliament fund that is some €400m in debt and may require a taxpayer bailout at a time of rising inflation and high energy costs.
Josep Borrell, the EU's foreign policy chief, is currently drawing a pension from a European Parliament fund that is some €400m in debt and may require a taxpayer bailout at a time of rising inflation and high energy costs.
Serious flaws in OLAF must be addressed; OLAF chief Kessler's position untenable Major problems with the working methods of the EU's anti-fraud body OLAF were again highlighted at a meeting of the EP's budgetary control committee on the annual report of the OLAF supervisory committee, which includes the handling of the Dalli case. The meeting underlined both serious structural problems in OLAF and its relationship with the supervisory committee, but also with the conduct of its director general Giovanni Kessler. Green MEPs Bart Staes and José Bové responded by calling for reform of OLAF...