EU looters

If you ever wondered why eurocrats defend the Common Agricultural Policy so strenuously, now you know:

It has been revealed that Holland's agriculture minister, the country's most prominent opponent of farm subsidy reform, receives 190,000 euro each year to prop up farms he owns in France and Holland.
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CAP apologists insist that the handouts aid small farmers - a claim comprehensively undermined by recent revelations.
Campaigners are hopeful that other EU nations will be forced to reveal where taxpayers' money is being spent in the name of the CAP: Information is slowly trickling out from Ireland and Estonia, while Spain may become the next big nation to reveal the destination of its payouts. Top of the campaigners' list, however, is the single biggest beneficiary of the CAP and the nation most resistant to both transparency and reform: France.

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