Brussels, 19/07/2016 (Agence Europe) - On Tuesday 20 July, the European Commission published accountability reports on the implementation of the 2015 EU budget, bringing them all together for the first time.
For the first time ever, it estimated the residual level of error in the expenditure after all recoveries and corrections at the closure of programmes (“amount at risk at closure”). This estimate is less than 2%.
The reports show that the programmes of spending have led to concrete...