leaving aside the should Great Britain be in the European Union or not? debate,
why is it for the 18th successive year that the Court of Auditors has said the EU’s finances were in such a mess that they could not be given a clean bill of health? in fact errors are still on the rise, back in the UK I have a small business, every year our bookeeper sends the company accounts to an accredited account who looks everything over and signs the accounts off, they are then sent to Companies House, all sent to a set time scale, if you fail to deliver the accounts on time a scale of late payments charges will be made,
all straight forward and easy to follow, a court appearance is guaranteed if you refuse to pay, but what I do not understand is why for 18 years the books of the EU have been so fraudulent that not a single company will sign the EUs books off!
it appears that no one is responsible for payments such as these, a ‘special premium’ paid to a farmer for 150 sheep which did not exist and 200,000 euros paid for a two-storey "laboratory" for producing fruit in Lombardy, Italy which inspectors found had ‘predominantly the charters of a private residence', it would be laughable if it were not for the fact that errors in EU payments had risen to 3.9 per cent from the 2011 budget of almost 130billion euros (£104billion),
the 27 member states and the executive Commission stand accused of failing to do enough to track billions of pounds in spending at a time when countries are imposing deep spending cuts at homes,
Marta Andreasen, a UK Independence Party MEP, said, 'if this report, outlining as it does the continued gross mismanagement of EU funds, doesn't set alarm bells ringing in Downing Street then nothing will,’ the former European Commission Chief Accountant added: ‘there is a new generation who will be voting later this month who have never known an EU with clean accounts,’ how has Great Britain and other EU countries allowed themselves to stubble blindly into such a mess?
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