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*** EU/Court of Auditors: The four new members of the EU Court of Auditors were sworn in at a formal hearing before the Court of Justice on 8 March. They are Belgian Robert Reynders, Spaniard Juan Manuel Fabra Vallés, Irish national Geoghegan-Quinn and Portuguese national Vitor Manuel da Silva Caldeira. Further, Jorgen Mohr (Denmark), Giorgio Clemente (Italy), Aunus Salmi (Finland) and Jan Karlsson (Sweden) have started a new...