CIVIL SERVANT LOSES CASE AGAINST THE COMMISSION.

The EU Civil Service Tribunal has ruled in favour of the European Commission in Case F-40/05, concerning the removal of a civil servant in 2004. It handed down a ruling on 8 November rejecting the proceedings initiated by Marta Andreasen, a former Commission official, on 6 June 2005. Andreasen was seeking annulment of the Commission's decision of October 2004 removing her from her post. Appointed as an accounting director in January 2002, Andreasen was suspended five months later for refusing to sign the Commission's accounts. She stated publicly that the systems in use...