MEPs of the European Parliament's Committee on Budgetary Control recommended on Wednesday 20 February that the European Commission be granted discharge for the implementation of the 2017 EU budget.
The report by Inés Ayala Sender (S&D, Spain) was adopted with 20 votes in favour and 2 against. It will be voted in Parliament plenary at the end of March.
MEPs welcome the reduction in payment errors in 2017 (2.4% according to the Court of Auditors).
Remaining to be liquidated. MEPs are...