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"EU spending shares the weakness common to many large organisations, governments, ministries and international organisations: money is spent over such a range of activities and in so many places that the auditors cannot guarantee that the exact amounts were always spent correctly. The US federal budget has not had a positive statement of assurance for about eight years. Britain’s Department for Work and Pensions has not had its equivalent statement for the last 15 years – and its budget is larger than that of the whole EU!
As the UK’s House of Lords reported yesterday, there appears to be relatively little actual fraud on the EU budget. The auditors have rather found cases of technical irregularities, which normally result in a refund to the EU budget anyway, or a late payment, or incomplete paperwork which gets chased up later. Sensationalist press articles then classify all these as ‘fraud’, which they are not.
Further progress in eliminating such errors is needed. I would like to see a system where the annual statements of assurance had to be given to the Commission departments and each of the 25 national governments individually, rather than in one single statement for the whole EU."@en1
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