McCreevy accused of stalling legal action until after election

COMMISSIONER Charlie McCreevy and the European Commission has been accused of stalling EU legal action against Ireland until after the elections to avoid embarrassing Fianna Fáil.

McCreevy accused of stalling legal action until after election

The Government has failed to bring two pieces of legislation on banking into national law and was issued with two formal warnings last year.

But no action has been taken since, although Internal Market Commissioner McCreevy said this week that he was “considering further steps that might be taken in this case”.

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