Whistleblower pipes up as MEP candidate

High-profile European Commission whistleblower Paul van Buitenen has detailed the recent series of European Union (EU) scandals and corruption cases within a manifesto, issued to promote his campaign for election to the European Parliament on June 10. Exploiting rules that allow European Commission officials to stand for the parliament and make detailed election statements, van Buitenen’s manifesto is actually a German and Dutch language book, ‘In the Trenches of Brussels’. It contains accounts of EU maladministration allegations from other whistleblowers, such as former chief accountant Marta Andreason, who recently withdrew from his Netherlands election slate Europa Transparant.