[repolfx]

Just go read stories from the UK Eurosceptic press over the decades. They've been digging up stories of EU corruption since forever. The only reason the UK is seen as "weird" by people in other EU states is because the press is ideologically loyal to the EU institutions throughout most of the world and doesn't report on or investigate this stuff. But in the UK they do (to some extent).

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!

[benhurmarcel]

https://blogs.ec.europa.eu/ECintheUK/euromyths-a-z-index/

https://blogs.ec.europa.eu/ECintheUK/category/euromyths/

[repolfx]

See my other comment on this thread about that site. Most of those "myths" are actually cases where the press told the truth and the EC just didn't like it.

[afjl]

I feel like this "pig" example may not be a very good one. It's clear the farmers were paid not to breed pigs for a good reason - overly low prices due to oversupply. The United States has passed similar subsidies to address our agricultural oversupply. Canada's done the same thing, quite infamously with their dairy industry.

[tonyedgecombe]

Just go read stories from the UK Eurosceptic press over the decades.

You won't find many facts there.