The European Union is accused of “breathtaking hypocrisy” for continuing to demand that David Cameron pays a £1.7billion bill despite its own auditors failing to give a clean bill of health to more than £100 billion of spending by Brussels.
According to the annual report of the European Court of Auditors, seen by The Telegraph, £5.5billion of the EU budget last year was misspent because of controls on spending that were deemed to be only “partially effective” by experts.
The audit, which will be published on Wednesday, found that £109billion out of a total of £117billion spent by the EU in 2013 was "affected by material error”.
It means that the Brussels accounts have not been given the all clear for 19 years running. Telegraph.
