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 ...

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 ...

Former prime minister Edith Cresson on Sunday hit out at the sexism rife in the upper echelons of the French political system as speculation mounted that President Emmanuel Macron is set to name a ...

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Europe's highest court ruled yesterday that Edith Cresson, the former EU commissioner, acted improperly in hiring her dentist as a top scientific adviser but should keep her £30,000 a year pension ...

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.