Ric.ror. Also another from a different thread; the poor pensioners we see every night on the box are in dire straits BUT don't forget many of them have played the game and lived well of EU taxpayers for a long time.
An example of how it has worked is this: you own a few lemon trees on some scrubby bit of land, and in cahoots with some official and with a few euros in a brown envelope get yourself registered as a small farmer and therefore eligible for subsidies, you apply for a grant for a tractor which is granted, but the tractor seller also sells Porsche Cayennes, so with a bit of shuffling of papers and more brown envelopes you end up with a Cayenne, generous subsidies, an early pension and more or less nothing to do except sit around in the sunshine with your mates and fidget beads, which is all you did in the first place when you were poor.
Yes, the EU is a wonderful institution, but now the heat is on, there are more 2nd hand Porsche Cayennes for sale in Greece than there are in Germany.