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Laura F. Spira
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| Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2005 6:54 pm
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Mickwick wrote:
| Quote: | In alt.usage.english, Bob Martin wrote:
in 1159326 20050531 175054 "Laura F. Spira" <laura@DRAGONs
Having met and talked at length with Marta Andreasen, the former chief
accountant, I see little hope of anything good coming out of the EU.
Read this and weep;
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,1072-1389862,00.html
I first heard this some years ago.
Wasn't her story discredited?
Ha!
Andreasen was discredited, not her story. She was physically
intimidated, smeared as a flake, charged with defamation and sacked for
disloyalty. A World Bank expert who spoke up for her at her disciplinary
proceedings was taken into a quiet room and threatened: 'We have ways of
breaking people like you.'
None of this changed the essential truth of the chief accountant's
allegations - that fraud and theft were rife because the EU's billions
were not subjected to proper accounting controls. Indeed, as far as I
know three years after she blew the whistle the EU is still using a
single-entry book-keeping system.
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Indeed. Her story is quite horrifying. She is one of the most courageous
people I have ever had the privilege to meet - a perfectly ordinary,
quiet, even rather mousy, Spanish accountant who remains determined, at
great personal cost, to raise awareness of the appalling state of the EU
accounting system - which she believed she had been appointed to sort
out. Kinnock's behaviour on this issue has been truly disgusting.
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Laura
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Mickwick
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| Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2005 12:17 am
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In alt.usage.english, Laura F. Spira wrote:
| Quote: | Indeed. Her story is quite horrifying. She is one of the most
courageous people I have ever had the privilege to meet - a perfectly
ordinary, quiet, even rather mousy, Spanish accountant who remains
determined, at great personal cost, to raise awareness of the appalling
state of the EU accounting system - which she believed she had been
appointed to sort out. Kinnock's behaviour on this issue has been truly
disgusting.
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Yes. Lovely man. I'll say no more.
But at least Marta Andreasen hasn't yet been framed for stock-exchange
fraud, as Cochrane was.
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Mickwick |
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Ross Howard
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| Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2005 12:40 am
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On Wed, 1 Jun 2005 19:17:28 +0100, Mickwick <groups@reply-to.domain>
wrought:
| Quote: | In alt.usage.english, Laura F. Spira wrote:
Indeed. Her story is quite horrifying. She is one of the most
courageous people I have ever had the privilege to meet - a perfectly
ordinary, quiet, even rather mousy, Spanish accountant who remains
determined, at great personal cost, to raise awareness of the appalling
state of the EU accounting system - which she believed she had been
appointed to sort out. Kinnock's behaviour on this issue has been truly
disgusting.
Yes. Lovely man. I'll say no more.
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Oh, go on. You know you want to. You'll feel better.
If only his Spanish equivalent, Joaquin Almunia (now the Supreme
Commissar for Transnational Shenanigans or something), who in his day
failed to be elected prime minister here almost as spectacularly as
Neil Kinnock did there, were half as risible and despicable as Lord
Bedsore, but he's crushingly bland and unobjectionable. Javier Solana
(was Mr Nato, now Mr EuroCondi) and Rodrigo Rato (the new IMF prez)
are disappointingly hard to hate, too.
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Ross Howard |
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Mike Lyle
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| Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2005 4:39 am
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Ross Howard wrote:
| Quote: | On Wed, 1 Jun 2005 19:17:28 +0100, Mickwick
groups@reply-to.domain
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In alt.usage.english, Laura F. Spira wrote:
Indeed. Her story is quite horrifying. She is one of the most
courageous people I have ever had the privilege to meet - a
perfectly ordinary, quiet, even rather mousy, Spanish accountant
who remains determined, at great personal cost, to raise
awareness
of the appalling state of the EU accounting system - which she
believed she had been appointed to sort out. Kinnock's behaviour
on
this issue has been truly disgusting.
Yes. Lovely man. I'll say no more.
Oh, go on. You know you want to. You'll feel better.
If only his Spanish equivalent, Joaquin Almunia (now the Supreme
Commissar for Transnational Shenanigans or something), who in his
day
failed to be elected prime minister here almost as spectacularly as
Neil Kinnock did there, were half as risible and despicable as Lord
Bedsore, but he's crushingly bland and unobjectionable. Javier
Solana
(was Mr Nato, now Mr EuroCondi) and Rodrigo Rato (the new IMF prez)
are disappointingly hard to hate, too.
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Well, at least we can get back to deciding whether a carrot is a
fruit or not.
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Mike. |
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Mickwick
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| Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2005 3:12 pm
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In alt.usage.english, Ross Howard wrote:
| Quote: | On Wed, 1 Jun 2005 19:17:28 +0100, Mickwick <groups@reply-to.domain
Yes. Lovely man. I'll say no more.
Oh, go on. You know you want to. You'll feel better.
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I did, and I do. Could you hear me?
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Mickwick |
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