9 of the 37 payments under the Recovery and Resilience Facility were not legally compliant

Omissions

• The claim does not specify that the '37 payments' refer only to RRF payments made to Member States during the 2025 financial year, not to all RRF payments since 2021; without the year, the ratio can be misread as covering the whole lifetime of the facility.
• No source is cited by the MEP; the figure originates from the European Court of Auditors' 2025 annual report (RRF compliance/legality audit).
• The exact 9-of-37 figure was found explicitly only in a single independent secondary source; the corresponding ECA primary publication pages were located and confirm the RRF payment volume audited (€40.1 billion of RRF grant payments in 2025) but the precise 9/37 sentence could not be extracted from the accessible text of the primary source within the search limit.
• The broader context of the same ECA report — an overall 2025 EU budget error rate of 3.8% and irregularities in €45.4 billion of RRF spending — is not mentioned, so the ratio is presented without the auditors' own framing of materiality.

Sources

• PrimaryEuropean Court of Auditors — Annual reports concerning the 2025 financial year"In 2025, EU payments totalled €216.4 billion: €176.3 billion in spending from the EU budget, and a further €40.1 billion from the Recovery and Resilience Facility"
• PrimaryEuropean Court of Auditors — 2025 EU audit in brief"Annual payments of RRF grants totalled €40.1 billion in 2025"
• SecondaryThe European Post — 'Auditors Put The EU Budget Error Rate At 3.8 Percent For 2025'"Auditors found irregularities in €45.4 billion of RRF spending. Of 37 payments to member states in 2025, nine did not comply with the rules and ..."