Brussels, 29/09/2011 (Agence Europe) - The audit of the systems put in place by member states to recover identified debts and the Commission's supervision of the process “concludes that overall they have improved since 2004”. That was the finding of the EU Court of Auditors, in a report adopted on Wednesday 28 September. Some weaknesses, too, are flagged up.
The European Union spends some €55 billion per year on agriculture and rural development, some of which is wrongly paid out as a...