An Estimated 3.8 % of the EU Budget Was Misspent in 2025 - FINCHANNEL
Auditors said the highest error rates were in cohesion, agriculture and environment spending, while RRF payments also drew a qualified opinion.
- The European Court of Auditors issued an adverse opinion on EU budgetary spending for the seventh consecutive year yesterday, finding the estimated error level rose to 3.8 per cent in 2025.
- ECA issued a qualified opinion on Recovery and Resilience Facility expenditure, identifying weaknesses in milestone design, gaps in The Commission's monitoring, and irregularities in €45.4 billion disbursed under the RRF.
- Auditors reported error rates for cohesion funding rose to 6.6 per cent, while spending on agriculture and the environment increased to 3.9 per cent in 2025, both well above the 2 per cent materiality threshold.
- EU debt rose from €601.3 billion in 2024 to €738.9 billion in 2025, while borrowing could reach €1 trillion by 2027 largely due to NGEU, with interest costs reaching €93 billion through 2034.
- ECA urges caution on future budgets as loans to Ukraine reached €170.1 billion, forcing difficult choices between higher national contributions and lower ambitions without new revenue sources.
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The European Court of Auditors notes in its annual report that the European Union has a chronic clumsiness in channeling money into the economy.
The European Court of Auditors criticises that many of the funds granted in Brussels are not being spent in accordance with the rules, which amounts to EUR 6.7 billion for 2025.
For the seventh year in a row, the European Court of Auditors (ECA) has issued a negative assessment of European Union spending. The number of errors in the budget has risen from 3.6 percent in 2024 to 3.8 percent in 2025. That percentage ‘is really too high,’ Stef Blok, a member of the Court of Auditors, told BNR. ‘That indicates that improvements need to be made.’ Most errors arose from agricultural and environmental spending in disadvantaged …
According to a recent report by the European Court of Auditors, about 3.8 percent of all EU expenditure was incorrect in 2025.
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