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NEIL KINNOCK and colleagues dogged by the Eurostat scandal (Photo: European Commission)

Commission admits huge Eurostat fraud

The European Commission has come clean and admitted the huge extent of fraud in its statistical office, Eurostat.

At a hastily arranged meeting on Wednesday (9 July), administrative reform Commissioner Neil Kinnock and his monetary affairs colleague Pedro Solbes told the European Parliament that Eurostat offices had been raided the night before and all its files secured.

The Commission acted after receiving two reports on Monday providing evidence that "serious wrong-doing on a m...

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NEIL KINNOCK and colleagues dogged by the Eurostat scandal (Photo: European Commission)

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