The EU is proposing to give 15 million Euros to China this year, next year and the year after. The European Commission justifies this on the basis that China still faces significant development challenges, particularly in relation to environmental sustainability, equal access to justice and equal treatment under the law.
As I tour the South West and talk to people one issue is mentioned again and again, namely the EU Accounts and their failure to be signed off each year by the Court of Auditors. We may only have recently started a new financial year but it is the same annual story once again. For the 16th year in a row the EU's Court of Auditors has been unwilling to give the accounts a statement of assurance. Once again there were flaws in the accounts, and despite opposition from Conservative MEPs and our allies in the European Conservatives and Reformist (ECR) Group, they have been accepted by European politicians.
Letter to the Editor - Brussels to Strasbourg commute under pressure
12th April 2011
Dear Sir
The announcement by the French Europe Minister that a challenge to the European Parliament's two-seat operation would result in counter-actions to change the seats of other EU institutions (report, 11th April) highlights how petulant and isolated the French have become on this issue.
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