According to the Court of Auditors, projects which were supposed to benefit from the Tacis cross-border cooperation scheme in the 1998 financial year were not chosen by the Commission until 2000. The ...

[Rosenergoatom, 2 July] A meeting between Russia's Rosenergoatom and the European Commission (EC) was held on 27-28 June at the shutdown Garigliano nuclear power plant in Italy. The key topic of the ...

This paper assesses the mixed results achieved by the TACIS Programme, highlighting some shortcomings of the programme that resulted in high costs and limited benefits for the economies and ...

(ITAR-TASS) The European Court of Auditors said today that the use of TACIS funds provided to Russia between 1991-2003 -- amounting to nearly 3 billion euros -- was largely ineffective. What the court ...

Much of the €2.8 billion of EU support paid to Russia under the TACIS programme since 1991 could have been a waste of money, a new report by the European Court of Auditors suggests. The study, ...