The European Commission has promised there will be no cover up on questions about US access to EU bank data via the Belgian SWIFT system, but warned its investigation could hinge on niceties of EU law.
"There is no question of a cover up, actually the opposite is the case," commission home affairs spokesman Friso Roscam-Abbing said on Thursday (6 July). "But we now have to wait for the Belgian authorities."
Belgium this week launched an investigation to see if the Brussels-based ...
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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.