Brussels, 20/03/2014 (Agence Europe) - On Thursday 20 March, the parliamentary committees on budgetary control and civil liberties adopted new rules to punish fraud against the EU budget, which call on the member states to punish passive and active corruption, money-laundering or dishonest bidding for public procurement contracts, as well as fraud. According to an EP press release, fraud costs the EU €600 million every year.
Fraud against the EU budget currently includes cases where...