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16 news items on European Union
Many European countries fail to meet air quality standards
Many European countries are failing to comply with international and European standards on air quality. Moreover, many ...
No-deal Brexit would cost the Netherlands €2.3 billion
Customs not fully prepared on exit date 29 March 2019 If the United Kingdom leaves the European Union without reaching an ...
Growth in cross-border e-commerce making great demands on Tax and Customs Administration
Rapid economic globalisation is making great demands on the Dutch Tax and Customs Administration’s efforts to ensure that VAT is ...
Refugee crisis: Netherlands Court of Audit analyses the facts and figures
An audit of the refugee crisis by the Netherlands Court of Audit has shown that the Dublin agreements are not being respected. ...
Growing audit gap in banking supervision
President of the German and Dutch supreme audit institutions: "Worrying development". The supreme audit institutions of five ...
National MPs must act to ensure sustainable finances
Speaking at a conference on stability, coordination and governance in the Economic and Monetary Union in Brussels on 17 February ...
EU Trend Report 2016: What do EU funds achieve? More input from member states needed
On the publication of the EU Trend Report 2016, the Netherlands Court of Audit argued that, with 80% of the EU budget being spent ...
More insight into effectiveness of European assistance programmes desirable
Allocation of more than € 440 billion to eurozone countries in difficulties has limited monitoring
Little interest in assessing effectiveness of EU subsidies
Trend: Although the EU is improving its financial management bit by bit, major improvements are still needed
Consequences of strengthening European economic and budgetary supervision set out in report
The Court of Audit published a report entitled European economic governance – European coordination of budgetary and ...