> the gripes that many Europeans have with the European Union seem to be mostly focused on the legibility rather than on the actual performance of the instituti

> the gripes that many Europeans have with the European Union seem to be mostly focused on the legibility rather than on the actual performance of the institution This is so wrong, I can find you a 100 million euro of miss allocated funds, mostly in grands to technology project under the umbrella of the Horizon project. These projects are not directly validated by members of the administration instead they pay consultants to do these work. Politicians, bureaucrats and management consulting, it is at least 3 layers of plausible deniability. Funny how many project I know that have an EU flag on the bottom of their website followed with, "this project was funded in part under grand proposal X", and right after that, "this project does not in any way share or from represent the opinion of the EU commission".