Fraud cannot be tackled by OLAF alone, commissioner says

Member states need to assume more responsibility in correctly managing EU funds and follow up what happens in the national courts to the fraud cases investigated by the block's antifraud office (OLAF), commissioner Siim Kallas has told EUobserver.

With both the Court of Auditors and OLAF identifying structural funds - in which "member states decide who gets the money", he says - as those that are the most prone to irregularities and fraud, audit reporting from national governments is a...