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The European Union (EU) a lot of money last year. The annual report on EU spending said the Union almost five billion euros (around US$6.4 billion). The boss of the European Court of Auditors, the group that the report, said the EU was very careless and should look after its money better. He said his team “ too many cases of EU money not the target”. Vitor Caldeira, the Court's president, said that many Europeans have to be careful with their money because of the financial crisis. He said the EU should greater care with its budget because of the weak economies in Europe: “These problems more than ever,” he added.

A spokesperson from the EU reporters that the mistakes were under 4 per cent of the total EU budget. He this was better than the 7 per cent error rate from five years ago. Some of the mistakes were very big. The EU spent money on the wrong things. One example was they money for training electronics employees to other kinds of workers. Another was money to forestry projects instead of farming programmes. Mr Caldeira said that only two areas of the EU budget had no mistakes. Marta Andreasen of the UK Independence Party said the mistakes the EU was seriously . She also said this problem should "set alarm bells ".

 


 
 

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