The EU's Recovery and Resilience Facility is a well-structured program that ties disbursements to concrete reforms and measurable results, ensuring accountability. The Commission has robust transparency measures in place, including published assessments, payment decisions and detailed guidance for member states. Differences in how countries collect data simply reflect varied national administrative structures, not mismanagement.
The EU's €577 billion recovery fund is a transparency disaster — citizens can't track where the money goes or what it actually achieves. The European Court of Auditors found that actual costs aren't collected, recipient lists are incomplete and results-based reporting is minimal. Letting this broken spending model shape the EU's next seven-year budget would be a serious mistake.
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