MEPs decided, on Wednesday 23 October, to refuse approval of the accounts of the European Asylum Support Office for the financial year 2017. Last year, the European Parliament had refused discharge for this agency’s expenditures (see EUROPE B12124A5).
By adopting (694 votes in favour, 2 against and 2 abstentions) Petri Savarmaa's (EPP, Finland) report on the Office's 2017 asylum budget, the Parliament considers the internal control system to be “inappropriate” and regrets that the...