EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - The European Commission is to claw back over €200 million in farm subsidies from 18 member states as a result of mis-spending, the EU executive announced on Tuesday (29 September). In total, €214.6 million of EU farm monies unduly spent by countries due to non-compliance with EU rules or inadequate control procedures on agricultural expenditure will return to community coffers. France will have to pay back €71m in mis-spent funds "The commission is keeping up the pressure to ensure the best possible controls over how this money is spent," said agriculture commissioner Mariann Fischer Boel, commenting on the decision. "The system is working better than ever and we will continue to strive to improve things further," she added. Some €71 million is being demanded back from France in what is the biggest bill for misuse of funds, for weaknesses in on-the-spot checks over the course of 2006 and 2007.
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - The European Commission is to claw back over €200 million in farm subsidies from 18 member states as a result of mis-spending, the EU executive announced on Tuesday (29 September).
In total, €214.6 million of EU farm monies unduly spent by countries due to non-compliance with EU rules or inadequate control procedures on agricultural expenditure will return to community coffers.
France will have to pay back €71m in mis-spent funds
"The commission is keeping up the pressure to ensure the best possible controls over how this money is spent," said agriculture commissioner Mariann Fischer Boel, commenting on the decision.
"The system is working better than ever and we will continue to strive to improve things further," she added.
Some €71 million is being demanded back from France in what is the biggest bill for misuse of funds, for weaknesses in on-the-spot checks over the course of 2006 and 2007.
But this is what the media want to keep feeding angry and confused people with. Tales of how elected representatives, and public services and servants, are ripping them off.
Keeps them occupied.
France gets over 10 billion euros a year in CAP expenditures. So, this 71 million for two years would be the equivalent of a rounding error.
It's sometimes useful to be remember who owns the EUobserver.
Who does? Is it Murdoch again? A vote for PES is a vote for EPP! A vote for EPP is a vote for PES! Support the coalition, vote EPP-PES in 2009!
