MEPS to question McCreevy

CHARLIE MCCREEVY, picked as one of the European Commission’s four main power brokers, faces a three-hour grilling by the European Parliament today.

Appointed Commissioner for Internal Markets and Services, Mr McCreevy is expected to face questions on his free-market economic philosophy from socialist members.

His job will be to oversee the next phase of creating a single market in the EU by opening up services from insurance and banking to telecoms and electricity and implementing financial regulations.