The European Commission has called for the suspension of EU pension rights for former French prime minister and EU commissioner, Edith Cresson, suspected of fraud, forgery and abuse of confidence during her time as commissioner in the late nineties.
On Wednesday (9 November), Mrs Cresson appeared before the Luxembourg-based European Court of Justice (ECJ), in a first hearing about irregularities of staff recruitments and payments during her 1994-1999 tenure as EU commissioner for educat...
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