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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8627
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/ecofin/parmalat

Commissioner Bolkestein confirms that he will present proposals on statutory audit in March

Brussels, 20/01/2004 (Agence Europe) - During the Ecofin Council, the Economy Ministers spoke of the implications of the Parmalat affair on European legislation. According to Commissioner Frits Bolkestein, it certainly exceeds the scale of Enron. Stressing the fact that detailed analysis must be carried out and that it is too soon to draw definitive conclusion, he asked whether it would be "going too far to say that in this case there was embezzlement, signs that the law was broken". Under...

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