POLICY PUSH TO BOOST EU FRAUD CONTROLS, AS EPPO SECURES FIRST CONVICTION
July 30th, 2022
Political pressure is mounting on the European Union (EU) to work harder and spent more on fighting fraud, with a European Parliament (EP) motion stressing that investments into fighting fraud saves more money than is lost to fraud and corruption when controls are too weak.
A motion, passed 437 votes to 94 and 39 abstentions, argued that the “unprecedented” EUR1.8 trillion funds being spent under the EU’s 2021-2027 planned policy programme, including its NextGenerationEU post-Covid economic recovery programme, required “an unprecedented level of ...
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