Brussels, 25/11/2013 (Agence Europe) - “The Commission and member states have not sufficiently shown what has been achieved in relation to the rural development policy objectives and there is a lack of assurance that the EU's budget has been well spent”: this was the damning verdict of the Court of Auditors, in a report published on Friday 22 November on the rural development policy, which was worth €100 billion over the period 2007-2013.
The Court assessed whether the Commission and...