BRUSSELS – Some of Europe’s most closely guarded secrets must be revealed by Thursday when a deadline passes for nations to make public the beneficiaries of the EU’s generous farm subsidies.
BRUSSELS – Some of Europe’s most closely guarded secrets must be revealed by Thursday when a deadline passes for nations to make public the beneficiaries of the EU’s generous farm subsidies. Those harvesting Europe’s subsidies – a system that eats up almost 40 per cent of the EU’s entire budget – among the 27 member nations must be listed publicly on Internet sites along with the exact amounts they earn.
The obligation to make the payments transparent dates from bitterly negotiated reforms in 2006 in the Common Agricultural Policy, which was originally conceived to boost Europe’s farm output in the wake of World War II.
-Nampa-AP
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