21 Apr 2023 --- The EU helped ensure food could arrive to families across the bloc during the COVID-19 pandemic, a report by the European Court of Auditors (ECA) finds. However, the emergency allocation of funding, which amounted to €712 million (US$780.22 million), allowed some farmers to be overly compensated and others under-compensated; furthermore, in some sectors, like the wine industry, overly complex solutions lead to inefficient money spending.