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5. The E.U. spends $65 billion a year subsidizing agriculture. But a chunk of that money emboldens strongmen, enriches politicians and finances corrupt dealing.
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A Times investigation, conducted in nine countries for much of 2019, uncovered a subsidy system that is deliberately opaque, grossly undermines the bloc’s environmental goals and is warped by corruption. Above, fields near in Hungary.
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“The European Union has very limited instruments for dealing with gangster member states,” said one expert on the bloc’s lavish farming subsidies. “It’s a real problem.”
BOSTON GLOBE
Fifty years ago Sunday, Nixon sat in the Oval Office and delivered a nationally televised speech whose content is almost universally forgotten today, but, like so many major presidential addresses, is remembered for one phrase: “silent majority.’’ Continue reading →
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