I SINCERELY hope that the correspondent who is seeking a response, via the Lancashire Telegraph, from a Member of the European Parliament to a question about the failure of the European Commission's auditors to approve its accounts for the past 13 years, is not holding his or her breath whilst waiting for an answer.
On February 16, 2001 I asked my MEP to find out why the European Commission's Directorate General V was refusing to disclose information about the funding of a project (No 14310/1/1/98) in which I had been involved and under which we had been owed several thousand euros since 1999.
On July 26, 2001 I had a reply. Unhappily this dealt with another person's letter concerning animal rights.
I immediately drew this error to my MEP's attention and in October 2001 was given a verbal apology and an assurance that my inquiry re funding would be dealt with immediately.
Nearly eight years after I wrote to the MEP, I am still waiting for his answer.
FORMER EUROPHILE, Accrington.
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