The European Parliament has given the go-ahead for a face-off between the European Ombudsman and the head of the EU's anti-fraud office, OLAF, after four months' delay.
The hearing is meant to take place during a petitions committee meeting on 23 November, the head of the committee's secretariat, David Lowe, told EUobserver.
The clash concerns the Ombudsman, Nikiforos Diamandouros' accusations that OLAF director general Franz-Hermann Bruner misled him over the case of German jo...
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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.