The European Commission is not correctly applying financial corrections designed to protect the EU budget against irregular spending in the area of Cohesion policy, according to a special report (https://aeur.eu/f/jke) published on Thursday 20 November by the European Court of Auditors.
Although cohesion spending is affected by a significant number of errors year after year, it took more than a decade for the European Commission to adopt its first financial correction decision in September...