Upon the European Parliament's debate on clearing the EU budget for 2022, ECA President addressed the MEPs, highlighted the current state of play on the EU's pandemic recovery fund, and spelled out some risks... 👇
#EUbudget #discharge #NGEU #RRF

🆒 auditors 🙌

New generation EU, new generation auditors 😎

Timely interview by European Court of Auditors' President on the EU's recovery fund after Italian-based EU prosecutors uncovered a suspected defrauding of 600 million💶

“Because of the limited control... the risk of such incidents occurring is high,” said Tony Murphy

#EUbudget #NGEU #RRF

Three recently appointed European Court of Auditors Members Katarina Kaszasová 🇸🇰, Alejandro Blanco Fernández 🇪🇸, João Leão 🇵🇹 gave the solemn undertaking before EU Court of Justice to respect their obligations in line with the 🇪🇺Treaty

👉EU Court of Justice press release curia.europa.eu/jcms/upload/do…

This week, President Tony Murphy and Member Keit are on an official visit to #Estonia .

The first meeting today was with Prime Minister Kaja Kallas, where discussions were centred around support for #Ukraine , #simplification , #digitalisation and the #RRF .

Belgian Presidency of the Council of the EU 2024 EPD - European Partnership for Democracy European Court of Auditors Hadja Lahbib Annemie Turtelboom Gwendoline Delbos-Corfield Ken Godfrey 🥳🥳🥳

🇪🇺 #RoadSafety audit

⚠️Alarming road death figures in some countries

⚠️Life of over 20 000 people cut short every year

⚠️EU to miss ambitious goals to halve & gradually eliminate traffic deaths

📈Way forward: EU efforts must move up a gear

🔗Info eca.europa.eu/en/news/NEWS-S…

Happy to acknowledge on International Women’s Day, the valued contribution of all our female colleagues to European Court of Auditors #IWD2024

💜Happy International Women's Day💜

On March 8th around the world, we take the day to recognise the cultural, political, social, and economic achievements made by 👩

Find more information in our newsletter⬇️
eca.europa.eu/en/news/NEWS20…

We appreciate your hard work! #IWD2024

Coming up: special report on  #RoadSafety

Wondered what 🇪🇺 has (ever) done for road safety? Are 27 member states on course to a zero death toll on roads?

Answers by European Court of Auditors next Tuesday, incl. online press briefing by Eva Lindström

🔗Media advisory 👇eca.europa.eu/en/announcemen…

New Members of European Court of Auditors from Spain and Portugal 👇

🇪🇸 Bienvenido Alejandro Blanco Fernández

🇵🇹 Bem-vindo João Leão

Coffee, croissant & European Court of Auditors newsletter can make for a good Sunday morning.

If our freshest edition hasn’t hit your mailbox, you can peruse in online now, and sign up too.

🔗 Newsletter - March 2024 eca.europa.eu/ECANewsletters…

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#RuleOfLaw

New review by European Court of Auditors on regular annual reporting by EU Commission on the rule of law

☑️ an important preventive step
⚠️ methodology and assessment approach could be clarified
‼️ little uptake in member states

🔗 Review and press release in 24 🇪🇺 languages ⬇️

📢New report out today by European Court of Auditors - on #RuleOfLaw ⚖️in the 🇪🇺

Auditors found:

✔️EU’s new rule-of-law safeguards are a commendable step forward

⚠️But there are 'chinks in the armour'

🔗Full report and press release in 24 EU languages eca.europa.eu/en/news/NEWS-S…

While you read the FT's big read about the Recovery and Resilience Facility at half time (before the Aug 2026 deadline), you may also take interest in a number of European Court of Auditors' reports on EU recovery funding, with many more to come:

Published👉eca.europa.eu/en/next-genera…

Upcoming👇

Thank you for an interesting read Sam Morgan The Brussels Times about the 🇪🇺Western Balkans front, and for an enticing intro/credits on the European Court of Auditors role/work.

Plenty more in our 'treasure trove' worth a look as we keep tabs on #EUbudget spending.

🔗brusselstimes.com/column/928779/…

Congrats Belgian Presidency of the Council of the EU 2024👏

Important to make progress in improving the situation of people with disabilities & making real life difference

In tune with European Court of Auditors finding that inclusion initiatives like 🇪🇺Disability Card are steps in the right direction

🔗eca.europa.eu/en/news/NEWS-S…

📢 Job vacancy: communications officer

❓Wanna join our PR team

European Court of Auditors seeking to recruit a comms officer to support the comms team in press relations, social media etc

❕Apply by this Friday noon. For EU officials (AD) & EPSO laureates

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