“Nearly a billion euros per year”: the European Commission also makes massive use of consultants

After France, the turn of the European Union to be in the spotlight for its use of consulting firms. In a report published Thursday, the European Court of Auditors returns to the large sums spent by the Commission to call on external consultants. The management of this file,perfectible», is undermined by a lack of information, framework, vision and follow-up, regrets the report. Shortcomings that are all the more damaging in that the subject can arouse the turmoil of the populations, as the French example has shown, and that the Commission has “more and more» Use of these services.