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Originally Posted by Choleric  Really interesting stuff, has there been any problems with corruption, like wasteful spending, i.e. nations using money they recieve from EU to build stuff like roads to nowhere or other pork-barrel projects? |
Not much as far as I know. There's pretty strict control over the EU funds. There's a lot of small stuff though - in Finland cattle is being shipped up north (to areas receiving higher-level agricultural subsidies) to be raised and then back south to be slaughtered...