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Monday, August 29, 2005 |
Observer: "Dutch Agriculture Minister Cees Veerman is being urged to resign over his ownership of a French farm which campaigners say gets more than £100,000 a year in subsidies from European taxpayers.
Veerman, who was made an honorary citizen of France for his services to agriculture, and also owns a large agri-business in the Netherlands, signed an agreement handing his French farm to a third party in 2002, but the deal lapsed after a year."
It is not uncommon in the Netherlands that judges are also members of the Board of Directors of big corporations, and sometimes even have to judge in cases against their own corporate employers. It is clear that justice and democracy don't really benefit from these conflicts of interests.
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Scotsman: "A former Scottish police chief has given lawyers a signed statement claiming that key evidence in the Lockerbie bombing trial was fabricated.
The officer, who was a member of the Association of Chief Police Officers Scotland, is supporting earlier claims by a former CIA agent that his bosses 'wrote the script' to incriminate Libya."
More.
11:35:47 AM
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