Brussels, 10/05/2010 (Agence Europe) - The financial impact of irregularities fell from €1,024 million in 2007 to €783.2 million in 2008, with reductions being recorded in all spending areas except direct expenditure and pre-accession funds, but improvement is still needed in tackling harmful tax practices, monitoring of direct expenditure and improving public procurement markets, the European Parliament said on Thursday 6 May in adopting the report by Andrea Cozzolino (S&D, Italy) on...