The investigation is part of a broader audit of EU-funded projects in Campania, currently under way.
Campania, a Clyde-built, Blue Riband-winning Cunard liner wrecked in the Firth of Forth just off Burntisland in 1918.
Most jet into Campania's capital, Naples, before heading to the sea and the abundant sunshine of its islands.
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The concert money came out of an EU regional programme for Campania that cost 2.25m euros, Mr Van Lierop said.
He was set to win in the northern region of Lombardy, as well as the central region of Campania and Sicily.
Since 1892, scientists have recorded at least 1, 173 serious landslides in Campania and in another almost equally shaky southern region, Calabria.
But what really haunts the survivors of the latest disaster is the Irpinia earthquake that hit Campania and Basilicata in 1980.
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From a Pinot Grigio, you can go on to explore a white wine such as a Fiano from Campania or a Falanghina.
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The region of Campania is one of the critical regions, after Lombardy and Sicily, in determining how parties fare in the Senate.
Traditionally, mozzarella, that bouncy, grassy-fresh ball of a cheese, is made with the milk of the water buffalo in the Campania region of Southern Italy.
The bells were shipped from Santiago to Swansea, originally intended as scrap, when the Jesuit cathedral of La Campania burnt down in 1863.
Further south, in Sicily and Campania, there are lots of terrific "miscellaneous" grapes, like the crisp Grillo and the ancient Fiano with its distinctive scent of hazelnuts.
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But Calabria remains firmly in the grip of the 'Ndrangheta, and Naples and its surrounding region of Campania are still in thrall to the Camorra (see article).
It was sent to millions of households in Sicily, Veneto, Campania and Lombardy - key regions which could decide the result of the election, which is held on Sunday and Monday.
Wracked by internal dissent, the outgoing government limped from crisis to crisis, the last and most toxically symbolic of which was last December's refuse-collection crisis in Naples and the region of Campania.
If the Commission finds that the money was mismanaged in this case, Mr Van Lierop said, it will ask the Italian authorities to deduct the amount from the next claim they make under the Campania funding programme.
As for Italian wines, I'll be obliged to drink fewer from the north, since I paid more attention to regions like Piedmont and Friuli and Alto Adige than I did to, say, Campania, Abruzzi and Puglia in the south.
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"You know that if you fire those three or four key members of staff the company would shut down immediately, and all the workers would lose their jobs, including those who have no links, " says Gianpaolo Capasso, the head of the agency in the Campania region.
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