Edith Cresson, the controversial former French prime minister and European commissioner, yesterday became the most senior EU official ever to be charged with fraud and abuse of confidence. If found ...

Edith Cresson, the disgraced EU commissioner from France, has turned her back on René Berthelot, the adviser and friend at the centre of the corruption accusations that led to the entire Brussels ...

A young Albanian man has said he will appeal after his application for French citizenship was refused when he was unable to answer questions on Edith Cresson, Jules Ferry and the current education ...

The European Union's top court ruled today that former French prime minister Edith Cresson had breached her obligations when … The European Union's top court ruled today that former French prime ...

ONE might say of Edith Cresson that her main mistake lay in coming to Brussels in the first place. Few among her admirers would call her a natural bureaucrat, or a natural diplomat, or a good “details ...

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The former French prime minister Edith Cresson will face corruption charges in Belgium over claims that she and her staff misused public money while she served as a European commissioner in the 1990s.