French farmers love subsidies If you've seen our rather nifty 'subsidies counter' on the site lately, as well as our beautiful 'Cows love subsidies' e-card, you might be interested in a news snippet we've just seen on the main Oxfam site. French newspaper La Tribune has published figures that show the biggest French farming businesses swallow up the vast majority of its EU agricultural subsidies. The new figures show that France's biggest 12 recipients each get more than 500,000 Euros a year in subsidies alone. The biggest two get 1.7 million Euros a year between them. And that's a staggering amount, by anyone's reckoning. France is one of the big supporters of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), which helps to keep these subsidies in place. As an Oxfam spokesperson says: "This gives a lie to the French argument that it uses EU subsidies to support its small farmers... The CAP is a gravy train for Europe's biggest, richest farmers." 'Lid comes off French farm subsidies' >> Send a 'Cows love subsidies' e-card >> posted at 1:11 PM | Permalink 0 comments   Comments: GenerationWhy and Oxfam accept no responsibility for the content of comments in the Blog. Post a Comment

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