Having produced its own bureaucracy, its own tariffs and a plan for its own currency, Europe's Common Market was bound to inspire its own kind of crime. That has now appeared in the form of a neat type of smuggling that Eurocrats call agro-fraud. The illegal activity costs the European Economic Community some $10,000,000 a year.
Agro-fraud was conceived by sharpies intelligent enough to understand the Common Market's crazily complex and loophole-perforated farm regulations. The ploy involves one or both of two operations: illegally claiming the subsidies paid by the EEC on...
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