EUROPEAN COMMISSION TRIES SMARTER TACTICS IN FIGHT AGAINST EU FRAUD AND CORRUPTION
August 1st, 2011 BY KEITH NUTHALL With public budgets under increasing pressure, it's a tough time to call for extra spending on policing fraud. However, the European Commission is arguing investments in European Union (EU) anti-fraud activities yield significant financial returns. Keith Nuthall reports. Costing lost spending and revenue from fraud and corruption affective EU programmes and taxes is always an imprecise task. Figures range from the billions to millions of Euros, depending on what scams are being valued and how. Generally, the only real consensus is that the sums ...
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