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EU accounts.....
Reading last weekend that we are apparently in our 14th year of being unable to find an accountant in Europe to audit the accounts. Is the EU so institutionally corrupt that they can't even bribe and accountant to cook the books? Is there any hope for the EU when it is run by crooks who cannot lie straight in bed?
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An investigation by the Open Europe think tank yielded:
Spain: a mayor got �40K for a riding school. He setup a girlie club instead
Italy: A consortium of businessmen got �60M, it went on high living including a Ferrari
Finland: A cmpaiogn to teach Fins to Tango got �850K
Belgium (The home of the trough): A City was awarded �10M so Officials could go to dinners and hunting trips
The list goes on and on and on and on
Dont forget British taxpayers send �10Billion a year to the trough to help pay for this rubbish.
And lets not forget the Brown/Blair lot gave back our hard earned rebate.
If Brown is serious about the credit crunch then here's one easy way to cut back. After all we are a net contributer (one of 3)
so what are they going to do ? Throw us out ? Hardly although we could slig the HRA out !
Spain: a mayor got �40K for a riding school. He setup a girlie club instead
Italy: A consortium of businessmen got �60M, it went on high living including a Ferrari
Finland: A cmpaiogn to teach Fins to Tango got �850K
Belgium (The home of the trough): A City was awarded �10M so Officials could go to dinners and hunting trips
The list goes on and on and on and on
Dont forget British taxpayers send �10Billion a year to the trough to help pay for this rubbish.
And lets not forget the Brown/Blair lot gave back our hard earned rebate.
If Brown is serious about the credit crunch then here's one easy way to cut back. After all we are a net contributer (one of 3)
so what are they going to do ? Throw us out ? Hardly although we could slig the HRA out !
The EU has no need to seek accountants to audit their budget - the European Court of Auditors was established in 1994 for that very purpose. Reports saying that the auditors "refused to sign off the accounts" have appeared every year since the formation of the ECA but are slightly misleading. The ECA agree the EU accounts are reliable, i.e. the accounts accurately recorded all transactions, assets and liabilities, but they will not endorse all of the spending that has taken place, not primarily for reasons of fraud (although fraud obviously does exist - some examples having been cited by youngmafbog - and which accounts for less than 0.1% of the total budget) but that some transactions have violated regulations and/or contractual conditions.
http://www.europeanvoice.com/article/2008/11/e u-fails-its-spending-audit,-again/63002.aspx
http://www.europeanvoice.com/article/2008/11/e u-fails-its-spending-audit,-again/63002.aspx
Kempie. Do you not see the irony in your statement.
The EU has no need to seek accountants to audit their budget - the European Court of Auditors was established in 1994 for that very purpose.
They do not seek accountants to audit their budget because they know full well that decent accountants would take them to the cleaners. So they set up their own Court of Auditors (in the pay of the EU) to do the job.
The EU has no need to seek accountants to audit their budget - the European Court of Auditors was established in 1994 for that very purpose.
They do not seek accountants to audit their budget because they know full well that decent accountants would take them to the cleaners. So they set up their own Court of Auditors (in the pay of the EU) to do the job.
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