The European Court of Auditors has released a hard-hitting report criticising Brussels for failing to ensure effective spending of EU funds in Romania and Bulgaria, with EU-funded computers left unused and swimming pools staying empty.
The report presented on Tuesday (20 June) by Maarten Engwirda, a member of the court, provides a painful assessment of the use of so-called Phare money from Brussels by Bucharest and Sofia, which are aiming to enter the union on 1 January.
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