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EU accounts are rejected for the sixteenth year in a row

By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 3:26 AM on 10th November 2010

Aduitors have refused to give the European Union’s accounts a clean bill of health – for the 16th year in a row.

Billions of pounds of EU funds were spent wrongly, they concluded, such as farmers being paid for crops that were never grown, or sheep being double counted to get extra grants.

Details of the scandalous waste emerged only weeks after David Cameron pledged to restrict the increase in the EU budget next year.


Scandalous waste: The EU has incorrectly spent billions on things such as farmers being paid for crops that were never grown

And it coincides with a rebellion on the Tory backbenches, expected tonight, over controversial changes to the Lisbon Treaty – signed up to by Mr Cameron.

The European Court of Auditors yesterday challenged the EU to get a grip on its spending after finding ‘material errors’ in last year’s £88billion budget.

Its president, Vitor Manuel da Silva Caldeira, said about 5 per cent of the budget – some £4billion – was spent wrongly

The biggest examples of waste were in agriculture, development aid and fisheries.

Auditors found that EU farm subsidies had been handed over to subsidise crops without any proof they were being grown. They visited farmland and found no evidence of cultivation at all.

Stephen Booth, analyst at the Open Europe think tank, said: ‘This is a hugely embarrassing annual tradition and it remains absolutely unacceptable.’



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