Court of Auditors

The statistics institute and Portugal's central bank uncovered the additional debt after a report published in April by the country's Court of Auditors said the island's government had incurred charges in 2009 that it hadn't paid to creditors including banks and construction companies.

Island's Hidden Spending Strains Portugal Patricia Kowsmann 2011

Actually, we probably won't know then either, since for the past 16 years, the EU's Court of Auditors has pronounced those accounts "materially affected by error," mostly due to fraud, negligence, bungling or creative math by the local authorities that administer EU subsidies.

Who Wants Money? Anne Jolis 2011

In January, Maarten Engwirda, a recently retired Dutch member of the Court of Auditors, lashed out against a "culture of covering up" in the EU.

Spend Better, Not More Derk Jan Eppink 2011

The EU's own supposedly independent Court of Auditors has held back in its reports, even as it refuses, year after year, to approve the EU's budgets.

The EU's Greek Revisionism Marta Andreasen 2011

Cost increases averaging 4.8% are budgeted for other institutions including the European Parliament, the Committee of the Regions, the Economic and Social Committees, the European Court of Justice, the Court of Auditors and various other agencies.

Hard to Get a Line on Lady Ashton's European Empire 2010

She adds that, "there has been a lot of window-dressing but essentially the criticism made by the Court of Auditors has not changed."

Archive 2007-11-01 Helen 2007

She adds that, "there has been a lot of window-dressing but essentially the criticism made by the Court of Auditors has not changed."

Dog bites man! Richard 2007

In fact, the famous Court of Auditors report about corruption in ECHO and other Commission institutions that eventually led to the resignation for a couple of hours of the Santer Commission, used the Russian and Ukrainian decommissioning programme as one of the examples.

Archive 2007-06-01 Richard 2007

In 1997 the Court of Auditors found that none of the projects that were supposed to have been built were anywhere near completion, some not having been started and the money had vanished either into the hands of the PA or those of EU officials.

Set a tranzi to catch a tranzi Helen 2005

The Court of Auditors has lambasted ECHO the European Commission Humanitarian Aid Office on numerous occasions, generally and on the subject of specific projects.

Set a tranzi to catch a tranzi Helen 2005