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The Government Expenditure Plan and Highlights by Ministry [ The Government Expenditure Plan ]

2000-2001 Estimates: Parts I and II: The Government Expenditure Plan and the Main Estimates

1998-99 Estimates: Parts I and II: The Government Expenditure Plan and the Main Estimates

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Better governance together means active cooperation between the European Parliament, the Council, the Commission and the national governments so that the people of Europe can see more clearly how they fit into major projects and into the EU's day-to-day business.

Recognises that the problem is often not the lack of funding but, rather, how funds are spent and what other resources are utilised; notes that the Court of Auditors’ recommendations concerning EU funds have not been fully implemented; calls for regular reviews of how funding from national governments through the EU and the UN is spent; believes it is vital to utilise funds effectively, given their finite nature and the scale of the problems being faced; believes accountability is an essential part of this process, as well as helping to tackle endemic corruption in Africa; insists on a more thorough and transpar ...[+++]ent evaluation of PSOs supported by the EU; backs initiatives such as the Békou trust fund operating in the Central African Republic, which seeks to pool European development-related resources, expertise and capacities in order to overcome the fragmentation and ineffectiveness of international action in the context of reconstruction of a country; calls for more systematic joint programming among the various EU instruments.

2. The EU budget is constantly on the rise – whereas national governments reduce their spending.

(c) heads of State or government and members of a national government with accompanying spouses, and the members of their official delegation when they are invited by Member States’ governments or by international organisations for an official purpose.