After the spectacular self-destruction of Jacques Santer’s Commission in 1999, the newly appointed President Romano Prodi announced that he understood exactly what the problem was and that under him the Commission would be transparent. Ask him anything you want and he will tell you. Not much has happened about that since and Statewatch, for one, has complained that things has not changed at all.
A few months ago the Wall Street Journal Europe decid...
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