The European Ombudsman, Nikiforos Diamandouros, has asked MEPs to put pressure on OLAF, the European Commission's anti-fraud office, to own up to its mishandling of the Hans-Martin Tillack case.
Mr Diamandouros' report said OLAF submitted misleading information to the EU's institutional affairs watchdog between March 2002 and March 2003, twisting the facts on allegations that the German journalist had bribed commission staff.
The report calls for the European Parliament to ad...
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Andrew Rettman is EUobserver's foreign editor, writing about foreign and security issues since 2005. He is Polish, but grew up in the UK, and lives in Brussels. He has also written for The Guardian, The Times of London, and Intelligence Online.