European Commissioners are being urged to take personal responsibility over the fraud cases in the EU statistical office, Eurostat, if an internal report shows that they did not take the necessary steps against alleged corruption and fraud.
The Commission insists on its rhetoric that it "could not act before as [it] did not know" -although fraud has been ongoing for over 3 years - and the Commission has so far emerged unscathed over this affair.
An internal report by the Commissio...
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