OLAF LAUNCHES ROUND-TABLE ON ANTI-FRAUD COMMUNICATION.

How can information and communication help in combating fraud and corruption in the EU? This complex question is being examined by a roundtable of experts (magistrates, politicians, police officers, scientists and journalists, etc.) on a new Web page launched by the EU's Anti-Fraud Office, OLAF. The round-table was prompted by Eurobarometer findings that three-in-four Europeans believe the Union should provide more information on its fight against fraud. Some 56% said there is inadequate media reporting of this issue. One of the initiative's central aims is to explain misappropriation of Community funds' widespread damaging effects. As Michaele Schreyer, the European Commissioner responsible for the Fight Against Fraud, observes, "a preventative strategy requires that...