Eurostat: Solbes urged to take responsibility

The Commission yesterday came under fire from MEPs for not taking political responsibility for the fraud cases in the EU's statistical arm, Eurostat.

As the Commission insists on its rhetoric that it "could not act before as [it] did not know", MEPs in the European Parliament's Budgetary Control Committee insisted on 16 July that the Commissioner in charge of Eurostat, Pedro Solbes (economic and monetary affairs) - take political responsibility.

Commission President Romano Prodi,...