EU TRANSPARANCY ACTION PLAN – MEMBER STATES EU SPENDING AUDITS
November 1st, 2005
Keith NuthallPOLITICAL pressure is being piled onto European Union (EU) member states to release more information about the way they spend EU-funded grants and subsidies from the Euro 110 billion EU budget. In a long-awaited 'European Transparency Initiative', EU anti-fraud Commissioner Siim Kallas has proposed discussions with national governments about "the introduction of a legal obligation to publish information about projects and end beneficiaries of funds under shared management", between member states and Brussels. This is crucial, given that 80% of EU ...
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