BUDGET: FORMER COMMISSION ACCOUNTANT WILL NOT APPEAR BEFORE PARLIAMENT.

The Conference of Presidents of political groups in the European Parliament has decided not to authorise a hearing of the former Commission chief accountant by the Committee on Budgetary Control. A hearing of Marta Andreasen would have been on the cards if the former accountant, currently facing disciplinary proceedings, had brought forward new evidence to counter allegations made against the Commission (see European Report 2718 for further details). In spite of repeated demands from Diemut Theato (EPP-ED, Germany), who chairs the Committee on Budgetary Control, Mrs Andreasen has...