{"id":470345,"date":"2026-11-05T17:37:20","date_gmt":"2026-11-05T16:37:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2026\/11\/05\/bilancio-2028-2034-la-corte-dei-conti-insiste-rischi-sulla-trasparenza-di-spesa\/"},"modified":"2026-11-05T19:01:06","modified_gmt":"2026-11-05T18:01:06","slug":"2028-2034-budget-the-court-of-auditors-insists-risks-regarding-the-transparency-of-expenditure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2026\/11\/05\/2028-2034-budget-the-court-of-auditors-insists-risks-regarding-the-transparency-of-expenditure\/","title":{"rendered":"2028\u20132034 Budget: the Court of Auditors insists: \u201cRisks regarding the transparency of expenditure\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brussels \u2013 Regardless of the figures involved, the European Commission\u2019s proposal for the EU\u2019s next seven-year budget (MFF 2028\u20132034) \u201cfails to address the several ways to
\n<\/strong>make it more accountable and transparent <\/strong>to citizens.\u201d This is the finding of the European Court of Auditors, in a report <\/a>dedicated to the next financial <\/a>policy instrument currently under negotiation<\/a>.<\/span> The special report is an indictment of the EU executive, which is held responsible for deliberately putting forward a proposal that falls short in terms of controls. <\/p>\n

Specifically, the Court of Auditors points out that as early as June 2025, with a specific report<\/a>, the von der Leyen Commission had been called upon to propose a new version of the multiannual budget which \u201cmust not come at the expense of accountability.\u201d However, this has not been the case. \u201cAs EU decision-makers negotiate the final form and scale of the 2028\u20132034 budget, the Court warns that the proposals fail to address significant concerns already raised in the past. Concerns remain particularly strong
\nabout financing not linked to costs.<\/strong>\u201d <\/p>\n

To put it another way, when it comes to the European Union\u2019s multiannual budget, \u201cwe need a budget that clearly shows what the EU has to offer, ensures the money is managed effectively, and strengthens accountability and transparency<\/strong>\u201d, emphasises Jan Gregor<\/strong>, the Member of the European Court of Auditors responsible for the analysis report. His point highlights two things: firstly, that this effective management is lacking in the proposal currently under negotiation; and secondly, that the von der Leyen team is, in essence, pressing ahead regardless of the observations made by the auditors in Luxembourg. <\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2026\/02\/24\/eu-court-of-auditors-criticizes-the-2028-2034-budget-risks-to-sound-financial-management\/\/ <\/p>\n

Among the issues identified by the European Court of Auditors is the fact that \u201cthe Commission\u2019s proposals did not seize the opportunity to provide a definition of the
\nconcept of EU added value to achieve a more focused budget with greater impact.\u201d Furthermore, the proposed performance framework \u201ccontinues to prioritise output indicators, without sufficient outcome and impact indicators.<\/strong>\u201d<\/p>\n

Furthermore, the report continues, with regard to financing not linked to costs, the new spending model follows that of the EU\u2019s post-COVID-19 recovery fund, \u201cleaving important methodological gaps.\u201d Specifically, \u201cthe emphasis continues to be placed on progress in implementation rather than on results\u201d<\/strong>. In short, a bureaucratic approach. As for the conditions for payment, these \u201cshould be clear and include compliance with EU and national legislation.\u201d Furthermore, the funding \u201cshould be fully traceable.\u201d <\/p>\n

The criticism coming from Luxembourg is not over yet, as it also addresses one of the key elements of the reform of the 2028\u20132034 MFF, namely the single national plan. As regards the annual coordination of Member States\u2019 economic policies, the European Court of Auditors states that \u201cbringing programming together under a single plan for each member state may give regions less say over decisions,<\/strong>\u201d a concern also raised by the European Committee of the Regions and the regions themselves<\/a>. Furthermore, \u201c there is also insufficient clarity about how reforms are assessed and resources are allocated to them.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Luxembourg\u2019s auditors take on the Commission: their concerns regarding the draft multiannual budget have fallen on deaf ears<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":494,"featured_media":470306,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"format":"standard","override":[{"template":"1","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","show_comment_section":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","disable_ad":"0","subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"view_counter_number":"0","share_counter_number":"0","like_counter_number":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25727,25681],"tags":[29807,26025,26763,33394],"class_list":["post-470345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-spotlight","category-politics","tag-corte-dei-conti-en","tag-ue"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/494"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=470345"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":470346,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470345\/revisions\/470346"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/470306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=470345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=470345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=470345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}