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Who watches the watchdogs?

The EU was built on a promise: public money, public accountability. This is where that promise gets tested. Transparency is not a threat to European institutions. It is the condition under which they earn their legitimacy.

Every finding here is built from public records, access to documents responses, and documents the institutions themselves produced. 

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The European Union pays for people, for hours worked. The Commission puts personnel costs at roughly two thirds of a research grant. Across its two flagship research programmes, that is at least 111 billion euros in staff time. European rules require a signed record, a timesheet, for every hour. The EU agencies that pay confirmed that they never receive it. What r...

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