"Slipping through the net: How EU countries evade new budget transparency rules" names and shames member states for failing to report accurately on subsidies recipients and undermining transparency laws designed to make the Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) more accountable.
According to report author Brigitte Alfter, the European Transparency Initiative (ETI), launched in 2005, gave EU countries the responsibility of publishing the names of beneficiaries and the amounts of EU funding allocated after May 1, 2007.
However, “weakness” in the legal framework for transparency and “bureaucratic obfuscation” by member states actually made it harder for EU citizens to know how their money is being spent.
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