ANDREASEN PUSHES EU TO ACCEPT EXTERNAL AUDIT – AFTER INSIDE WATCHDOG MEMBER ADMITS FAILINGS
January 1st, 2011
BY ALAN OSBORN and KEITH NUTHALL
UKIP MEP and former European Commission chief accountant Marta Andreasen wants the European Union (EU) to use external audits following claims from a former EU Court of Auditors member that irregularities are swept under the carpet. Andreasen said allegations Maarten Engwirda made about court's lack of independence of the auditors (admittedly partially withdrawn) "call into question the basis on which the [European] Parliament gives a discharge" of the EU's annual accounts: "It was now the time to get a real ...
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