“We will hold talks with the European Parliament’s Committee on Budgetary Control, as the reason for postponing the discharge is not clear, since we have not been able to identify any problems concerning the legality and regularity of the expenditure”, Klaus-Heiner Lehne, President of the institution, told EUROPE on Thursday 3 March, following revelations in the daily Libération about malfunctions in the institution’s internal rules (see EUROPE B12900A21, B12899A29).