https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/03/w...y-hungary.html
Interesting article on the corruption that EU farm subsidies support. The EU's Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), which effects these subsidies, was set up primarily to aid France's rural poor, who often rely on subsistence farming to live. In 2005 UK Prime Minister Toby Bliar gave up a chunk of the UK's EU rebate (which we get because we didn't really benefit as a nation from the CAP) in return for reform of the CAP. To date no such reform of CAP has taken place.