En effet, depuis de nombreuses années, des subventions à des associations dites dans le milieu "à finalité européenne" étaient accordées sans base légale, souvent dissimulées dans la partie A du budget, c’est-à-dire rattachées fictivement aux dépenses administratives de la Commission.
In fact, subsidies have been paid for many years to associations with an allegedly ‘European mission’ without any legal basis. They are often concealed among the appropriations made under Part A of the budget, in other words they are merged, with the aid of creative accounting, into the administrative expenditure of the Commission.