Errors in the EU’s €240 billion budget last year soared to 5.6%, a level not seen since the financial crisis, the European Court of Auditors (ECA) has said in a report published on Thursday. For the fifth consecutive year, the EU’s budget watchdog offered an adverse opinion on the bloc’s spending, representing a formal red card, as member states rush to grab “buckets of money” from Brussels that have a spending time limit, the ECA said. “The substantial increase in the estimated level of error for the EU budget … is concerning,” ECA President Tony Murphy said in a foreword to the report, whi…