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Blowing the Whistle by Paul van Buitenen
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    • Product code: 24140
    • ISBN: 1902301463, ISBN13: 9781902301464, 256 pages, paperback
      Published by Methuen on 2000
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    Description of Blowing the Whistle

    Early in December 1998 Paul van Buitenen, an assistant auditor in the Financial Control Directorate of the European Commission in Brussels, lifted the lid on the internal corruption and fraud he had unearthed at the heart of the Commission. In the face of extreme pressure to keep quiet, he revealed to the European Parliament the true extent of EC corruption - and three months later the entire Commission resigned.
    Misappropriation of funds, corrupt dealings with contractors, jobs for the boys (or, in the case of Commissioner Edith Cresson, for the dentist) - van Buitenen had opened a wriggling can of worms, and set in train a sequence of events which continue to reverberate around the corridors of power.
    Blowing the Whistle tells the enthralling inside story of the scandal which reached to the heart of European politics.


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