Monday, 11th April 2011
Questions are being asked today about the continued function of the European Police College at Bramshill in Hampshire after the European Parliament's Budgetary Control Committee refused to sign off their accounts for 2009, yet gave the go ahead to release an increase in their budget for 2011.
The accounts for 2008 have also not been discharged amid continuing questions of how funds are spent and accounted for.
UKIP MEP for the South East and Budgetary Control Committee member Marta Andreasen said it made no sense to refuse discharge for 2009 yet increase the budget for 2011, she equated it as a reward for ineptitude and possible fraud.
Ms Andreasen: "It beggars belief that an EU institution that has had discharge refused for two consecutive years is today awarded an increase in its budget for 2011.
"Last year I called for the college to be scrapped after its chairman was removed from office and the European Fraud office was brought in to investigate sums of unaccounted taxpayers money. My call, unsurprisingly given the European Parliament's track record, went unheeded.
"Today we have the farcical situation of an inept and quite possibly fraudulent EU Institution being rewarded with an increase in budget on the one hand, yet being refused sign off for its 2009 accounts on the other. It really is very bizarre."
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