Austria is deeply corrupt and making taxpayer gifts to private investors, and then forgetting the ties to what good the investor needs to bring in return is standard procedure in Germany and Austria. Somehow the people involved on government side then tend to get lucrative presentation deals, or flast for cheap, but our corruption laws mostly concern themselves with the waste worker getting flowers too expensive, rather than high level interactions between government, businesses and politicians.

Sadly I am serious.

If you understand German (or can bear automatically transcribed and automatically translated subtitles), here's a good summary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzyeD33xhi8

That will not stop for the foreseeable future, as it would require a common understanding among all EU countries to reform the farming subsidy system. We currently see in the Netherlands and northern Germany, that they rather poison the water supply with nitrate and pay large fines to the EU than reducing the use of mineral fertilizers.

Ironically the abhorrent use of fertilizers destroys the soil, so eventually they are stuck with using the fertilizers or let the fields recover for years. It's like a severe alcohol addiction and no politician has the balls to put agriculture into rehab.