1. The EU spends enormous sums subsidising farmers.

2. Italy != Europe. Countries can and will do things differently to other countries.

If your position is that farmers in the EU or Italy specifically have no lobby then you could not be more wrong.

Throwing money at farmers to keep them in the country is, like, the main purpose of the thing, and more than a quarter of the budget is spent on it (this is not a recent development, either).

The EU is an agricultural union with a bit of other stuff sprinkled on top.

This has nothing to do with EU. This is a regional law in a part of Italy. It’s like saying ”Now Americans want X” for what a random city somewhere in US made a rule about.

> After bribing people to abandon the agricultural sector for decades

What? A quarter of EU expenditure is spent on agricultural subsidies, i.e. directly paying people to be farmers.