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The money farmers: How oligarchs and populists milk the EU for millions

Selam Gebrekidan, Matt Apuzzo and Benjamin Novak
New York Times·
21 mins to read
The money farmers: How oligarchs and populists milk the EU for millions
Fields near Csakvar, Hungary. The EU spends US$65 billion a year subsidising agriculture. But a chunk of that enriches politicians and finances corrupt dealing. Photo / Akos Stiler, The New York Times

The European Union spends US$65 billion a year subsidising agriculture. But a chunk of that money emboldens strongmen, enriches politicians and finances corrupt dealing.

Under Communism, farmers laboured in the fields that stretch for miles around this town west of Budapest, reaping wheat and corn for a government that had

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