LUXEMBOURG, Nov. 1 (UPI) -- The European Union has gotten dismal results from the approximately $908 million spent to improve law and order in Kosovo, an EU auditing agency found.
The European Court of Auditors said in a report this week that insufficient coordination between the EU and the United States, unqualified staff and so-so anti-corruption institutions in Kosovo have limited the EU's effectiveness, EUobserver reported Thursday.
Gijs de Vries, the Luxembourg court member responsible for the report, said in a statement conflicting attitudes toward Kosovo by EU members states has nullified the country's effort to stamp out corruption.
Cyprus, Greece, Romania, Slovakia and Spain have refused to recognize Kosovo since it declared its independence from Serbia in 2008.
The auditing body said many of the 2,250 staff members at European Union Rule of Law Mission in Kosovo, the EU's policy body in Kosovo, were unqualified and were sent on missions that were too short.
Eulex has an annual operating budget of about $144 million. It has a mandate to work with Kosovo until 2014 to help establish the rule of law.
