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Not one company, nor a single firm of auditors, anywhere in the EU would survive the report of the Court of Auditors presented in Brussels last week.
The Austrian president of the Court, Hubert Weber, made some astonishingly frank admissions to the budget control committee on which I sit. Surprisingly they have attracted little attention.
He admitted [...]

Wall Street Journal, European Edition, Brussels
29 November 2005
Sir
Your editorial today suggests the UK should continue to welcome immigrants from eastern Europe, and elsewhere. But the UK is a finite space. It is already twice as densely populated as the demographers suggest is sustainable. The “full” notice should have gone up years ago.
Huge problems are being [...]

Farnham Herald group of newspapers
27 November 2005
Sir
Your report (25 November) failed to mention several important aspects of the fight against benefit fraud. The government has assumed councils have been over-paying social security claimants, and set them recovery targets. If they fail to reach those recovery targets the councils themselves face financial penalties imposed by central [...]

I attended the vote on the proposed Port Services Directive today (22 November 05) despite its clashing with an important meeting of the budget control committee on which I also sit. This conflict of committee times is of course deliberate to ensure that not all members attend all meetings.
The wrecking amendment, supported by the whole [...]

Douglas Alexander MP
Foreign and Commonwealth Office
London, SW1A 2AH 21 November 2005
Your letter of 14 November in reply to mine to the prime minister about fraud and corruption in the EU beggars belief. Either you know little and care less about it. Or you have not been briefed properly. Or the member of your staff who [...]

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