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7 Nov 24
Auditors have issued a warning over “high levels of irregular spending” in the EU budget, with the rate of error rising to over 5%.
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4 Oct 24
A €5bn fund aimed at curbing migration from Africa to Europe has been criticised by auditors for lacking focus, exaggerating achievements and failing to address risks to human rights.
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16 Jul 24
A policy area covering more than €400bn of European Union spending is affected by too many errors, and governments at the national and union levels need to step up their efforts to stop them, the...
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9 Jul 24
Eurozone countries have been urged to show greater fiscal restraint in an effort to shrink budget deficits across the bloc.
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9 Jul 24
The European Commission has launched a finance hub to try to attract €650bn to help 112 cities reach net zero by 2030.
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27 Jun 24
Bloc ‘determined’ to reduce sources of revenue but governance for members now critical
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25 Jun 24
Taxation and corruption reform part of negotiations
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19 Jun 24
Snap election could spook investors and hit growth
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10 Jun 24
Focus shifts to delivering budget post elections
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14 May 24
Regular payments to Ukraine can now begin to flow from the European Union, with most money set to shore up the government’s budget as the country tries to recover from the Russian invasion.
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7 May 24
Billions of euros of irregular spending are taking too much time for the European Union to claw back, the bloc’s auditors have said.
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30 Apr 24
Brexit boosted revenue but focus now on e-commerce taxation
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12 Mar 24
Finance ministers have agreed that cutting deficits in the euro area should remain the priority amid a sluggish global economy, as they set out their priorities for next year’s budgets.
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11 Mar 24
Negotiations and more elections likely after repeat of Spanish polls
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2 Feb 24
Finance ministers agreed to the first ever revision of the European Union’s long-term budget to provide €50bn of support to Ukraine.
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12 Dec 23
Daily fines the European Court of Justice has imposed on Poland are incompatible with the nation’s constitution, a Polish body has ruled.
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14 Nov 23
The European Union’s executive often takes a kinder view of what it achieves through its budget than the bloc’s spending watchdog, the latter has said.
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18 Oct 23
The European Union has affirmed its ambition to increase climate finance for developing nations ahead of the United Nations’ annual summit.
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18 Aug 23
Millions of euros the European Union had planned to spend on programmes involving Russia and Belarus will now be spent with Ukraine and Moldova, in light of the ongoing war.
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17 Aug 23
Huge spending on social services in response to the shock of Covid-19 ensured European Union economies were disrupted as little as possible, and adapting to the new reality has provided lessons on...
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21 Jul 23
A proposed €20bn long-term military support package will provide more “sustainable and predictable” financing for Ukraine, a senior European Union minister has said.
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14 Jul 23
Repeating broad-based energy subsidies would raise government spending, distort energy prices and fail to reduce use and should therefore be avoided, the European Union’s energy regulator has said.
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11 Jul 23
Candidate for EU membership gets help with cost-of-living crisis
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13 Jun 23
The European Union has agreed a package of more than €1bn with Tunisia containing significant support for the latter’s border controls, as well as finance linking to other areas of reform.
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9 Jun 23
The wide scope of European Union development spending in other countries could limit the programme’s impact, the bloc’s spending watchdog has warned.