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BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Hundreds of billions of euros in European Union recovery funds are allocated on the basis of data supplied by EU governments that the EU’s statistics office Eurostat cannot verify, the European Court of Auditors said in a report on Tuesday. Last year, the EU set up a Recovery and Resilience Facility of 724 billion euros ($750.28 billion) split between grants and loans that it will jointly borrow and spend until 2026 to help economies rebound from the COVID-19 pandemic slump. How much money each country gets from the EU fund was based on data on the country’s population in …