Its very sad that these people we trusted with the worlds largest budget saw fit to abuse their power.

Time for elected commissioners and closer auditing.

However, the European Union musn't feel it has lost any ground in its desire to improve the lives of its 500 million or so inhabitants, unlike the Americans who spent $40million to 'prove' their president was a bit of a cad, we'll just replace those who fouled up and move on. No 6 month TV fiasco.

The American economy and Mr Greenspan would LOVE to see Europe infighting politically to halt the EU progress to pushing the dollar under the carpet forever.