European Commissioner For Administrative Affairs, Audit And Anti-Fraud related content 

An off-campus trip for European commissioners. European commissioners began their autumn term with a preparatory seminar on Tuesday and Wednesday (30-31 August), held...

Commission proposals delayed until September; revised rules aim to win back goods and passengers. Plans from the European Commission to encourage competition in the railway...

Changes made and proposed by the Commission will hamper, not enhance, efforts to curb fraud. The figures are alarming, and they are a call for action. From Helsinki to...

The (would-be) peregrinations of Henrik Hololei. Henrik Hololei has spent the past five years as head of the private office of Siim Kallas, Estonia's European commissioner....

Road-test of Europe's would-be transport commissioner reveals him to be a cautious driver. After five and a half years looking after the European Commission's internal...

A cross-party group of MEPs calls on the Commission's president to clarify his plans to increase transparency about lobbying. In the “Political guidelines for the next...

The office of Simm Kallas comes under close scrutiny. The practice of parachutage – from the private offices of European commissioners into other jobs around the...

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Upheaval in the Commission's budget department. An appointment hangs in mid-air in the European Commission's budget department. On 1 June, Luis Romero Requena became head of...

European Parliament backs calls to reform the EU's anti-fraud unit; member states criticised for failure to prosecute. MEPs today overwhelmingly backed calls to strengthen...

Fraud office had sought appeal against damages awarded to Commission officials. The supervisory board of the EU's anti-fraud office, OLAF, has failed to persuade the...

Senior official on leave after undercover newspaper report. The European Commission is investigating allegations that a senior official in the directorate-general for trade...

Senior trade official under suspicion goes on leave as internal and independent investigations begin. A senior EU official has gone on leave while the European...

MEPs on the budgetary control committee have renewed their threat to delay approval of the EU's 2006 accounts. They are demanding prior agreement from the Commission and...

Another sticky budget, and clean hands all around yet again. Working out who bears the ultimate responsibility for spending of EU funds is like trying to grab hold of...

In an entertaining speech last year Siim Kallas, the commissioner for administrative affairs, audit and anti-fraud, pointed out that, in the strange world of Brussels...

A radical overhaul of the European Schools system has been proposed to address problems facing current schools and to deal with new schools which will open in the future....

Some jokingly refer to it as Kinnock's curse. The top-to-bottom reform of the European Commission masterminded by the former UK commissioner came under the spotlight last...