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To: long-gone who wrote (20926)	10/7/1998 8:09:00 AM
From: Amelia Carhartt	Respond to of 116841

Not me Richard.

To: long-gone who wrote (20926)	10/7/1998 5:56:00 PM
From: goldsnow	Respond to of 116841

Richard, it is not that your theory is outright implausible, but there is so much incompetency and misunderstanding bordering on malpractice, in medical term that that explains actions of Canada, Australia, Belgium and Italian (hedge) fiasco in itself..:) Brussels budget blocked in row over corruption By Toby Helm, EU Correspondent <Picture> <Picture><Picture> EURO-MPs threatened a funding war with Brussels last night by blocking much of the European Commission's 1999 budget in protest at its refusal to come clean over fraud and corruption scandals engulfing Brussels. <Picture> President of the European Commission Jacques Santer addresses deputies of the European Parliament Despite a partial capitulation by Jacques Santer, the Commission president, who pledged last night to set up an independent fraud fighting team in response to mounting criticism, elected members vowed to keep up the pressure until all the facts about Commission fraud were revealed. The dispute between the European Union's executive and the Parliament surfaced at the Strasbourg assembly after the Commission admitted that more than £600 million spent on humanitarian aid between 1993 and 1995 could not be accounted for. The first signs of endemic fraud in the aid unit came to light earlier this year when a supposed new land registry in Sarajevo, for which EU funds had been provided, was found not to exist. Later similar fake contracts were found to have been drawn up for supposed projects in Rwanda and Burundi. The concern of Euro-MPs turned to anger in recent days after the Commission refused to release full details of the scandal for fear of implicating individuals believed to be named in it. This followed the refusal of Edith Cresson, the commissioner in charge of research and a former Prime Minister of France, to appear before a parliamentary committee to explain why she had employed her favourite French dentist on a lucrative Commission Aids-research contract. It was terminated recently. The missing millions from the humanitarian aid budget, together with the failure to monitor expenditure, were cited in an audit by the Commission's anti-fraud unit, Uclaf, which has been criticised for incompetence by the Court of Auditors, the EU's overall financial watchdog. Senior officials in Brussels have also confirmed that documents relating to aid expenditure worth several hundreds of millions of pounds have been destroyed at the European Community Humanitarian Office. More than 70 per cent of its budget is channelled through non-governmental organisations or bodies such as the Red Cross. telegraph.co.uk