• Revealed: UK government was warned of infected blood risks in 1970s (Guardian 270424)
  commercial blood product at centre of biggest treatment scandal in history of NHS:approved for use after government officials were told convicts were among paid donors&virus contamination should be assumed,corporate filings reveal.given to ­haemophiliacs for bloodclotting,was injected into ks of patients in UK:70's&80's.harvested in US from inmates:drug use&sexual infections rife.concluded:“wrongs were done at individual,collective&systemic levels”.HIV dito.UK failed to act over risk of disease spreading by contaminated blood.commercial blood product imported into Britain from USA may pose grave threat to haemophiliacs.4mnths later Mail on Sunday warned of hospitals using killer blood.prescient warning,but UK faltering->2yrs more HIV infections.
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• Ursula von der Leyen’s controversial EU envoy pick quits at last minute (Guardian 160424)
  Markus Pieper resigned from the €17,000-a-month role hours before he was due to start on Tuesday after pressure from MEPs and European commissioners who had raised allegations of favouritism.Opponents including the French commissioner Thierry Breton and the EU’s chief diplomat, Josep Borrell, had demanded that the appointments process be reviewed, claiming Pieper had not come first in the initial interviews process.Allies of von der Leyen have said that a letter opposing Piepers appointment penned by Breton and Borrell, along with Nicolas Schmit,the jobs and social rights commissioner,and Paolo Gentiloni,the commissioner for the economy,was entirely political.
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• Verontwaardiging in Brussel:Von der Leyen geeft mooie baan aan partij- en landgenoot (AD 150424)
  vriendjespolitiek,klinkt het in Brussel.Baan gegund aan Pieper(man,CDU):niet als beste uit de sollicitatie.VDL:commissie over eigen personeelsbeleid.Breton,vz sollicitatiecie was net afwezig toen commissie erover besloot.Tsjechische Martina Dlabajová als beste voorgedragen,ook zweedse kandidaat beter.Vrouwen,Tsjechen&Zweden allen ondervertegenwoordigd ondanks beleid dat recht te trekken.officiële klacht over de procedure ingediend.schaal 15:op een na hoogste en bestbetaalde niveau van EU-ambtenaren=18k€ p/m.
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