On Thursday, 31 January, the European Parliament celebrated the reduction in EU budget fraud since 2014 but hopes that this is not a matter of diminished detection efficiency.
In Brussels, the Parliament adopted the report by Marian-Jean Marinescu (EPP, Romania) assessing the Annual Report 2017 on the protection of the European Union’s financial interests (see EUROPE 12087).
It notes with satisfaction that the total number of fraudulent and non-fraudulent irregularities reported...