Investigations into the use of EU funds, 2022. Orbán’s Hungary at the top.

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  1. Let’s just take a moment to appreciate Italy managed to have approx. The same amount of recommendations as Hungary, but with 2/3 the amount of investigations.

  2. while the left part has some intersting members like France, all this chart is about the countries on the right part. Turkmenistan, Sierra Leone, Zambia.

  3. For some reason, I can’t get over the random use of “*Republic of* North Macedonia” and the ridiculously long formal name for Laos.

  4. Can somebody explain this graph, in particular what it means to be “closed with recommendations”?

  5. Would like to see a comparison with the amount of money country got, or, better yet, the number of investments it translated into.

  6. And once again Bulgaria and Romania next to each other – brothers in same fate ♥️

  7. Sorry folks: Hungary performs better. (That was the hook in 2010 what Fidesz made… Otherwise terrible the whole thing. 😂

  8. We should stop giving him any money either way he just steals it with his cronies and keeps blocking EU in everything as he is licking Pootins ass and only complains about EU

  9. European Public Prosecutor’s Office :

    “Non-participating EU Member States

    Out of all EU Member States, so far, Hungary, Poland and Sweden have decided not to join the EPPO. Denmark and Ireland have an opt-out from the area of freedom, security and justice (AFSJ).

    Working arrangements with these five non-participating EU Member States are being established to define how the EPPO will cooperate with them. “

  10. The proportion of the # of investigations to the # of recommendations is generally high. Here I do not see Hungary being worse then the rest of the pack.

    But do we know, why the number of investigations is that high? Does one need reasonable suspicion for starting an investigation?

    Also: this is absolute number of investigations, rather then a percentage of total uses of EU money, which would be more meaningful in my eyes.

  11. Okay, I am certain that theres insane levels of corruption in Hungary, BUT, there is nuance to this.

    What metric did they use for an “investigation” for example? Because you have to file a receipt for every damn nail you buy with that funding. So if you have a hundred euros of missing funds, you might launch an investigation and find that the receipt just got left out of the books.

    Meanwhile, with all due respect, i doubt Zambia or Uganda even uses books that could then be cooked. And who would investigate Ukraine without being demonized?

  12. For EU, isn’t Turkey basically what Mexico is to US? How come there’s not a single dime spent towards them while their economy is crumbling?

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