Sweeping changes clean up Brussels.(News)

From: The Birmingham Post (England) | Date: October 2, 1999| Author: | Copyright information

The big Brussels clean up has begun. Twenty new brooms are set to sweep away the mismanagement and mistakes of previous European Commissions.

And with Labour MEPs ever watchful, the European Commission will no longer be able to sweep any failures or scandals under the carpet.

Europe's 20 new commissioners must clean up the Brussels act. If they do not the Single European market, so vital for profits and jobs here in the West Midlands, will be weakened.

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