Member of the European Court of Auditors, Lefteris Christoforou, is holding a series of meetings with officials of the Cypriot Government and the country’s institutions this week.
According to a statement from his office, during his contacts, Christoforou will present and discuss, among other things, the recent special reports of the European Court of Auditors, the upcoming publications – especially those related to the EU’s Recovery and Resilience Facility – and the challenges concerning the EU budget execution.
On Tuesday, it said, Christoforou was received by the President of the Republic, Nikos Christodoulides, whom he briefed about the recent work of the European Court of Auditors.
‘An interesting discussion was held’, it said, on the results of the recent audits of the European Court of Auditors, especially on the EU’s Recovery and Resilience Facility and the absorption of funds from the European co-financed funds.
It notes that President Christodoulides emphasised the importance of the role of the
European Court of Auditors in terms of monitoring the implementation of the recovery and resilience plans of the EU member states and expressed his satisfaction with Cyprus’ particularly high rate of absorption in terms of the 2014-2020 European Structural and Investment Funds.
The President of the Republic, it adds, took into account the risks identified by the auditors which result from the parallel implementation of the EU’s recovery and resilience facility and the European funds for the period 2021-2027 that co-finance the cohesion policy (THALIA 2021- 2027).
Christoforou also had sperate meetings with the Auditor General, Odysseas Michaelides, the Minister of Energy, Commerce and Industry, George Papanastasiou, the Commissioner for Agricultural Payments, Andreas Kyprianou, the Deputy Minister for European Affairs, Marilena Raouna, and Government Spokesman, Konstantinos Letymbiotis.
Source: Cyprus News Agency