The European Union 's auditor called on the bloc's new executive yesterday to seek better value for taxpayers' money as its report on the 2013 accounts estimated that up to €9 billion may have been misspent. However, at a time when national governments under pressure from Eurosceptic parties denouncing waste in Brussels, the European Court of Auditors criticised member states' failure to curb fraudulent and other unjustified claims for EU cash and praised the commission's efforts to claw back misdirected funds. Signing off on its audit of the € 148.5 billion ($186 billion) of EU spending last...
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