Revealed: billionaires are ‘ultimate beneficiaries’ linked to €3bn of EU farming subsidies (www.theguardian.com)

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Billionaires were “ultimate beneficiaries” linked to €3.3bn (£2.76bn) of EU farming handouts over the four-year period even as thousands of small farms were closed down, according to the analysis of official but opaque data from EU member states.

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[-] veganpizza69@lemmy.vg 5 points 3 weeks ago

Where are the tractor protestors now?

[-] BrowseMan@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 weeks ago

Babis is known to have done that for years, using his government position to facilitate it.

I'm so glad he was kicked out of the government, but I don't know if anything happened to him since. Probably not.

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