The European Commission was called upon on Monday 4 July to step up the fight against fraud affecting Common Agricultural Policy spending.
“We found that the Commission had reacted to cases of CAP aid fraud, but had not been sufficiently proactive in addressing the impact of the risk of illegal land grabbing on CAP payments, in monitoring the anti-fraud measures adopted by Member States, and in exploiting the possibilities offered by new technologies”, reads a report published by the EU...