Brussels, 23/01/2008 (Agence Europe) - During the Ecofin Council on 22 January in Brussels, the commissioner for regional policy, Danuta Hübner, and the Portuguese minister of finance, Fernando Teixeira dos Santos, signed a “contract of confidence” guaranteeing the quality of audits carried out by the Portuguese authorities, the Inspecção-Geral de Finanças. This audit focuses on the spending that inspections declared to the European Commission. They relate to programmes co-funded by...