Brussels, 05/11/2002 (Agence Europe) - "Our message to the Member States is simple: spend taxpayers' money properly - or we claim it back". It was in such terms that Franz Fischler, European Agriculture Commissioner, presented the European Commission's decision, on Tuesday, to proceed to recovery of EUR 86.36 million in misspent money under CAP.
The money is to be recovered because of inadequate control procedures or non-compliance with EU rules on agricultural expenditure. While Member...