Brussels, 08/09/2008 (Agence Europe) - On Sunday 7 September, the European Commission announced that it was verifying allegations made in a British newspaper that a senior EU official, a director at DG Trade, had provided sensitive information to journalists who were passing themselves off as representatives from a pressure group.
The Sunday Times affirmed the same day that it had a recording of an assistant to the European Commissioner for trade, Peter Mandelson, revealing confidential...