requires movements and new projects to keep it busy. However, during 1998 the commission began to lose authority due to management criticisms from the Parliament.

Budget controversy

The community's budget for each year needs to be discharged by the Parliament following its report by the European Court of Auditors. It had only refused to do so once previously, in 1984. Towards the end of 1998 the Parliament's Committee on Budgetary Control

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