While the Court of Auditors endorses the Commission's initiative to merge 12 external action programmes into a single new global development aid instrument in the next multiannual budget, the auditors emphasise accountability and the need for a results-based approach in a report issued on 17 September 2018.
"The Commission's ambitious proposal for the new external actions instrument goes in the right direction," said Hannu Takkula, the European Court of Auditors' member responsible for...