The European Commission will announce on Friday (1 June) how it will reform the Common Agriculture Policy (CAP).
One aspect of the reform will be an attempt to make sure that the farming subsidies go to actual farmers, by capping the maximum amount of subsidies at €60,000.
However, a dive into the national databases of subsidy recipients showed that the CAP funds have some unexpected beneficiaries which remain below that figure.
Sometimes so unexpected, that spokespeople fo...
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