• The European Court of Auditors (ECA) published a report criticizing the lack of transparency in the use of funds from the EU’s Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF), worth €577 billion.
  • According to the report, there are frequent discrepancies between cost estimates and actual costs of measures financed by the fund.
  • Information on actual beneficiaries, actual costs, and achieved results is insufficient.
  • Deficiencies in reporting actual costs were also identified in Austria.