Blackening their name?

Date: 03/04/1997

Beware a new faction within the Commission which calls itself the “April 29 Group”, which is tasked with preparing recommendations on food controls and carrying out a risk evaluation in the wake of the BSE inquiry by the European Parliament's temporary committee of inquiry. Officials are anxious to establish why this newly-appointed team has given itself such a fearsome name, redolent of “Black September” and other less-than-friendly organisations. You have been warned...