Outgoing European Commission President Jacques Santer (L) attends a European Parliament session in Brussels March 22. Santer commented on the European Commission's resignation last week in the wake of a scathing independent report into fraud, nepotism and mismanagement at the EU executive. The hard-hitting 144-page report, compiled by an independent panel of experts in just six weeks, accused commissioners of losing control over the sprawling Brussels bureaucracy that proposes and implements EU laws.

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