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**Matt W** · Nov 16, 2005, 06:17 am

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4438888.stm

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For the eleventh year in a row, the European Union's annual accounts have failed to gain a seal of approval from the EU's own auditors.
The European Court of Auditors said the amount of spending they could verify rose to 35% in 2004 from 6% in 2003.

The improvement was mainly due to a new system of control over the payment of agricultural subsidies to farmers.

Nono · Nov 16, 2005, 08:59 am

Yup, high time to change the CAP. Trouble is that farmers constitute a sure-fire voting bloc. And the real waste isn't even on individual farmers but on agribusiness, which brings us such wonders as BSE.

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Nono Throbbing Member Location: Old Europe Posts: 7,161	Yup, high time to change the CAP. Trouble is that farmers constitute a sure-fire voting bloc. And the real waste isn't even on individual farmers but on agribusiness, which brings us such wonders as BSE. "I wish I was as cocksure of anything as Tom Macaulay is of everything." -- Viscount Melbourne