On Tuesday 4 October, the European Court of Auditors (ECA) sounded the alarm over the high level of infringements of the European state aid rules in the field of the cohesion policy, which they believe affects one public aid measure in every five.
Of the 50 cases of non-compliance with the rules on state aid identified between 2010 and 2014, ECA found that the errors in 16 of them had had an impact on the amount paid for out of the EU budget.
One type of mistake made concerns the intensity...