Brussels, 24/11/2009 (Agence Europe) - Is it a wise decision to delegate executive tasks to the executive agencies? One might doubt it when reading the recently published report from the European Court of Auditors, which writes that the creation of six executive agencies since 2003 “was mainly driven by the need to compensate for staff shortages at the Commission”.
Executive agencies implement EU spending programmes totalling around €27.9 billion for the current multiannual financial...