EU Grant Recipients and Contractors

Where were the grants disbursed?

Have the grants been properly monitored, audited and accounted for?

Much more transparency is needed, and that applies to every EU country.

From Observing Greece blog, 2013:

"The EU Commission maintains a data base which records EVERY disbursement of an EU-grant: the amount of the grant; its purpose and its recipient. With so many well-educated young Greeks being unemployed, it should be easy to train a few hundred of them in the auditing of EU-grants. The simple question to check would be: were the monies disbursed used for the purpose stated in the application? This link leads to the various EU data bases registering recipients of EU-grants: EU grant recipient and contractors"

Kathimerini article

"Meanwhile, Supreme Court prosecutor Efterpi Koutzamani on Wednesday issued a circular to all appeals court prosecutors in Greece ordering them to conduct their own investigations into how European Community and state funding has been disbursed and used in their areas of jurisdiction to ascertain whether subsidies were used as intended. She added that individuals found to be in violation of the terms of the subsidy programs under which they received funding will have to return the money to the state".

Agricultural Cooperatives in Epirus