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EU funded programmes in Turkey are helping Syrian refugee children and others (Photo: EU/ECHO/Abdurrahman Antakyali)
By Nikolaj Nielsen
The EU is unable to verify with certainty how over €1bn of European taxpayer money was spent on Syrian refugees in Turkey because of Ankara’s data protection laws.
“I can say that this is a serious situation,” chief European auditor Bettina Jakobsen told reporters in Brussels on Monday (12 November).