COURT OF AUDITORS TACIS EU-RUSSIA JOINT AUDIT
April 1st, 2006
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union's (EU) financial watchdog, the Court of Auditors, has successfully cooperated for the first time in assessing an EU spending programme with a supreme audit organisation of a country that is neither a member state or an official membership applicant. The court hailed cooperation with Russia in auditing the Euro 7 billion TACIS scheme on developing former Soviet republics as "rewarding" and "highly interesting". The success makes more likely similar work with other eastern European countries seeking formal ...
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