Brussels, 24/07/2003 (Agence Europe) - As luck would have it, the day when the latest developments in the case of financial malpractice at Eurostat were announced (see yesterday's EUROPE, p.7), the European Commission adopted draft guidelines defining officials' financial liability in cases where they are proved to have caused financial damage to the EU budget through a serious personal error. The proposal featured in the March 2000 White Paper on administrative reform at the Commission and...