ALLIANCE FOR LIBERALS AND DEMOCRATS FOR EUROPE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT
Brussels, 23 March 2010
Today's investigation reported in the French newspaper "Libération" denouncing the mismanagement of €27 million provided by the European Union over four years for ensuring security to its mission in Afghanistan was echoed by Pino Arlacchi (IdV, Italy), European Parliament rapporteur on Afghanistan who uncovered similar evidence in a fact finding mission to Kabul (26 Feb.-4 March). "70-80 percent of the $34 billion in aid to Afghanistan via international organizations in the past eight years never reached the Afghan people", claimed Arlacchi.