The Union’s financial accounts for 1994 were formally approved and cleared in Strasbourg this week…

Date: 18/04/1996

...but not before MEPs had voiced strong worries at loopholes in the system. British Socialist MEP John Tomlinson accused EU states of hypocrisy, complaining that only three - Austria, Sweden and the UK - were cooperating fully with the Parliament's inquiry into transit fraud, although all condemned fraud in the Union.