MEPS DEMAND MORE MONEY FOR EUROPEAN PUBLIC PROSECUTOR IN SIGNING OFF EU’S 2018 ACCOUNTS

The European Parliament has called for more money to be allocated to the new European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) as it signed off the European Union’s (EU) 2018 accounts, in a process known as ‘discharge’ - as the EU’s budgetary authority the parliament is solely responsible for clearing the accounts of the bloc’s institutions and agencies. A resolution from the parliament adopted earlier this month (May), “criticises the underfinancing and understaffing of the EPPO during the build-up-phase and the underestimation of its needs by the ...


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