Daca se va reglementa problema (un fel de "witness protection"), e posibil
ca "fluieraturile" sa devina asurzitoare iar "fluieratorii" sa ramana fara
suflu, mai ales acum, de cand Romania este membru UE...
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Vali
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peace." (Jimi Hendrix)
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Saturday, September 08, 2007 at 16:14
Whistleblowing remains lethal for EU careers
BRUSSELS (EUX.TV) -- Blowing the whistle on fraud and nepotism inside the
European Union instutitions remains a lethal move for civil servants,
according to Dutch MEP Paul van Buitenen, himself a former European
Commission official and whistleblower.
Van Buitenen, elected in 2004 to the European Parliament for the Dutch
'Europa Transparant' party, on Monday meets European Commissioner Siim
Kallas, whose task it is to increase transparency at the EU.
The Dutch MEP will again press for a new regulation on whistle-blowers. He
says he's disappointed to see that the commission still has not taken any
action to improve the situation.
"As things stand at the moment, blowing the whistle inside a European
institution is equivalent to committing professional suicide. There still
are EU officials who want to report excesses, but who can't do so officially
because they are afraid to lose their job," Van Buitenen
<http://www.europatransparant.nl/?pag=3&nid=72> writes in his blog.
Van Buitenen wants the EU to take the British government's '
<http://www.opsi.gov.uk/ACTS/acts1998/19980023.htm> Public Interest
Disclosure Act' as an example for its new approach.
"This is the only policy in Europe that works," he says, adding that the
United Nations' policy also could serve as an example for EU institutions.
'Not a single' whistle blown since 1998
In 1998, Van Buitenen's expose led to the resignation of the European
commission presided by former Luxembourg Prime Minister Jacques Santer and
the fall of Edith Cresson.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Santer>
He now says that EU whistleblowing policies still need to be improved to
prevent new exposes from leading to "accidents".
According to Van Buitenen, "not a single civil servant" at the European
Commission has been able to apply for protection for whistleblowing since he
released his own expose in 1998.
The MEP last year presented an independent report to the European Parliament
which said that EU civil servants often do not report irregularities because
they fear it will harm their position.
Van Buitenen said the EU lacks a qualified and independent body that can
investigate internal irregularities. The European antifraud office OLAF only
is qualified to probe financial irregularities.
Problems such as conflicts of interest, nepotism and intimidation are not
investigated by <http://www.europatransparant.nl/?pag=146&nid=46> OLAF,
whose own functioning also is being questioned, according to Van Buitenen.
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