Between 2013 and 2017, some 4,000 potentially fraudulent irregularities in the use of EU funds were identified, representing about €1.5 billion of EU aid, 72% of which related to cohesion policy, according to a European Court of Auditors report published on Thursday 16 May.
“The extent of reported fraud is greater in the field of EU cohesion policy than in other areas of expenditure”, the auditors note in their report, recalling that, although this policy represents one third of the...