"In its 2010 “Fight Against Fraud” report, the European Commission admitted to losing 1.2 billion euros to fraud, an increase of 109 percent over the previous year. Marta Andreason asked rhetorically: “Why does the EU allow this situation to continue?” Her answer:?”Simple: the EU uses funding from the budget to buy support for the EU project." Stephen Booth of Open Europe, an anti-EU think tank, commented: "The fact that the amount of EU spending subject to fraud is actually on the increase is shocking in itself. But it makes the Commission and MEPs' demands for a bigger EU budget all the more outrageous."
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