And that’s not to count the absolutely incredible mid and high level corruption that this article discusses.
Source: lived in Hungary for 5 years
Outside of the agricultural sector, the EU budget doesn't play that big a role. The main point of the EU is to facilitate the common market by setting common rules (business regulations, right of movement of people and goods, and so on) for the member states to follow.
1. https://europa.eu/european-union/about-eu/eu-budget/expendit...
2. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2b/2018_Fed...
Got any citations number on those observed numbers and any basis to claim it was EU that did it? Or is this just you deciding that EU is bad and then fitting things to your view?
Even look at this story. The NYT really wanted to go digging for dirt on Orban and Hungarian society in general, Orban being famous mostly for resisting EU integration and resettlement efforts, and being notoriously unpopular in Brussels. But they found they couldn't because the EU lacks even very basic levels of openness. You aren't going to read about EU corruption from them, that's for sure - the fact that they only just noticed this says they've been turning a blind eye for years.
For instance, go look at the stories in the UK about farmers being paid to not breed pigs. I'd like to get paid to not breed pigs! I think I'd be good at it!
You won't find many facts there.
That's really nice but the problem is most of them are designed to suck up as much of that free no-strings-attached grant money as possible rather than build a successful product.
One of the goals of these projects is often to do an initial development phase and then bring in a new tranche of companies to trial/expand what you have developed. There are groups of companies that have developed a symbiotic relationship where one of them gets into a particular project and then pulls in their fellows in the subsequent round. It is also common to see them tendering to diverse projects in the hope that one of them gets accepted and they all then pile into it.
The formal review meetings that I have attended have been extremely uncomfortable because I know that the people are on stage flat out lying about what they have achieved. Generally all they have done is some token development so provide a few screenshots for a presentation and then talk about how it has revolutionised their business whilst pocketing the vast majority of the cash.
You are not thinking the right way. Machinery for writing good grant applications is a successful product.
This is why research universities are such great training grounds.
How could you possible know that? Clearly you are making this up.
Not meaning to doubt you, but it all seems a little too good (or maybe bad) to be true, doesn't it?
https://www.vlaio.be/nl/subsidies-financiering/subsidiedatab...
I've already posted a link for another source in another comment.
Edit: This is how to get a refund for voting: https://vlaanderenkiest.be/faq/wanneer-krijgt-u-uw-reiskoste...
Why did you do that, the facts aren't hard to find and you may well learn something along the way.
Or maybe incentives are corruption and the oil and corn businesses in the US are the worse offenders
https://www.imec-int.com/drupal/sites/default/files/inline-f...
Are you an industrial pizza producer? Get 200.00 euro funding to bake patatos in the pizza ovens.
Want a digital agency to build you a new website? Just have the agency bill it as multi-language communication services, and get back 40%.
A public tenders for an IT security audit at a local municipality tailer made for a company with the political connections.
Over two million euro divided between industry partners to participate in research on "decentralised computing" but never install the software that was developed. Not that it mattered because the software didn't work. I worked as a subcontractor of a subcontractor on the project and was the only outside of academia to try it out and found some obvious errors.
Are you a student who attends university in a different city than your officially domicile and need to vote in the next election? Send an email with your ID and student card to get a rebate on the travel expenses.
You don't get cancer by just having one cell in your body multiply uncontrollably. It needs friends to trait hormones and enzymes with.