European Parliament 17 July 2002, WRITTEN QUESTION E-2133/02 by Bartho Pronk (PPE-DE) to the Commission. Discrimination against international football referees on grounds of age.

Would the Commission not agree that moves of this kind must be seen as a form of ‘creative accounting’ aimed at increasing or concealing the size of a public debt which is already extremely high in Italy, to an extent that is incompatible with the Stability Pact criteria?