UK/EUROPE - BP has blamed its European pension funds and FRS17 for a fall in its global pension funding levels.
BP says its schemes in aggregate are only 96% funded. A BP spokeswoman said: “The problem with FRS17 is that where we have funds in European countries – that are funded in a different way to the...
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