EU auditors find errors in billions paid out by member states

EU auditors have once again refused to sign off the bloc's accounts while noting that EU farm subsidy reform means that handouts are going to golf clubs rather than farmers. \n \nThe president of the European Court of Auditors, Hubert Weber, gave a negative statement of assurance on the EU's spending when presenting the 2006 accounts report to the European Parliament's budgetary control committee late on Monday (11 November).

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