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EU spending still open to fraud, ex-top official says

The EU's €120 billion or so a year budget continues to suffer from "weak accounting controls" that leave it "vulnerable to error and fraud," the European Commission's former chief accountant, Marta Andreasen has told EUobserver in an interview.

Her comments come after the UK's House of Lords published the conclusions of a year-long study into Brussels spending on Monday (13 November), saying the EU Court of Auditors has applied unrealistic criteria in giving a negative verdict on the co...

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Andrew Rettman is EUobserver's foreign editor, writing about foreign and security issues since 2005. He is Polish, but grew up in the UK, and lives in Brussels. He has also written for The Guardian, The Times of London, and Intelligence Online.

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Andrew Rettman is EUobserver's foreign editor, writing about foreign and security issues since 2005. He is Polish, but grew up in the UK, and lives in Brussels. He has also written for The Guardian, The Times of London, and Intelligence Online.

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