Brussels, 02/12/2010 (Agence Europe) - Like last year, and despite some improvements, it is cohesion policy that has attracted the greatest criticism of the management and monitoring of EU budget expenditure. The European Parliament's budgetary control committee has asked the European Commission to unveil an action plan, as part of its work on the discharge of the 2009 budget, to allow the automatic suspension of payments where there is mismanagement or improper auditing of EU funding.
The...