PARLIAMENT'S REACTION

Commission urged to get tougher with member states

By Constant Brand - 11.11.2010 / 05:09 CET

MEPs say not enough is being done to curb poor financial management.

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Commission wants 6.8% rise in budget

Payments foreseen of €138 billion for 2013.
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EU budget complexities pose a public-relations challenge

MEPs prepare to call for greater budget increase

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What comes next?

The report from the European Court of Auditors will be presented to the EU's finance ministers at their next meeting on 17 November.

The European Parliament's budgetary control committee now starts its annual review of the EU's spending in 2009.

The committee will embark on hearings with individual European commissioners over the coming two months about the auditors' findings. Lászlo Andor, responsible for employment, social affairs and inclusion, and Johannes Hahn, responsible for regional policy, will be questioned on 30 November; Dacian Ciolos, agriculture and rural development, on 1 December; Andris Piebalgs, development, on 13 January; Máire Geoghegan-Quinn, research, innovation and science, on 25 January, along with Catherine Day, the secretary-general of the Commission.

The annual accounts of the EU's 2009 budget and the European Development Fund (EDF) were published in the EU's Official Journal on 9 November.