BRUSSELS SAYS MEMBER STATES ANTI-FRAUD ACTION MAYBE TOO WEAK
August 1st, 2014
THE LATEST European Commission annual report on European Union (EU) anti-fraud measures has highlighted concerns that member states may be doing far too little to detect EU-related financial crime. Keith Nuthall reports.A 2013 Report on the Protection of the EU's Financial Interests noted that some member states reported “very low numbers of fraudulent irregularities” – but the Commission does not believe this is because they are clean. Indeed, Brussels thinks this is probably a sign of frauds against EU spending programmes and revenue generation being ...
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