On Thursday, 5 December, in Brussels, EU Commissioner for Budget Johannes Hahn told the European Parliament’s Committee on Budgetary Control (see EUROPE B12382A29), “I cannot give you an analysis” of the merits of the current case concerning the alleged conflict-of-interest situation in which Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš finds himself.
While the members of this committee asked for the audit reports to be made available to them in order to shed light on the Babiš case,...