The president of the Committee on Budgetary Control of the European Parliament (CONT) criticized the lack of transparency and the scarce information provided by the Socialist government of Pedro Sánchez during the presentation of the report on the implementation of the Recovery and Resilience Mechanism (RRM).
"As of today, we don't know where all the European funds received by Spain have gone," she explained. This way, the European auditors responsible for overseeing the use of the recovery funds allocated to Spain still do not know the destination of the first 40,000 million granted.
The conclusions of the report were forceful: "The last time I asked about the money was three weeks ago. Today I still haven't received any data," denounced German MEP Monika Hohlmeier, who strongly criticized the Spanish government for its poor management.
"I can't understand how the Spanish Administration doesn't have interoperable IT tools to facilitate aggregated searches that inform citizens and institutions about the destination of each of those funds," she pointed out.
The destination of the funds
The Committee also warned that the distribution of these funds has been carried out without rigorous control, suggesting that part of the money is not being used in accordance with the objectives for which it was granted. Allocations were identified for current and operating expenses, which contradicts the principles of the program.
In this regard, Monika Hohlmeier was emphatic in stressing that "all funds must be allocated to projects with European added value, not to items in the ordinary national budget."
