Mr Vaughan said it was clear the Objective 1 funds were not administered properly, though he believes improvements have been made since convergence funding in 2007.
So global warming models say global warming has little or no impact on North Atlantic storms and meteorologists report a convergence of natural factors that made Sandy especially powerful.
Film-makers have always relied on tools like lighting and depth-of-field to shift the audience's perspective, but the convergence of animation and 3D has made them pay greater attention to detail.
This was made necessary by the Maastricht convergence criteria, which required countries joining Europe's single currency to have similar, low rates of inflation.
He remains the keeper of the five tests and he alone will judge how much progress is made towards reducing those impediments to structural convergence he has identified.