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Subsidies are not linked specifically to environmental problems, EU auditors say (Photo: European Commission)

Billions in EU aid spent on ill-defined green projects, say auditors

More than a third of EU agro-environmental aid is given to farms that have no ecological problems on site or within a 10-km range, a study carried out by the European Court of Auditors (ECA) shows.

"The current policy is too vague to deliver tangible results and there are considerable problems in calculations and in differentiating between various regional and local conditions," Olavi Ala-Nissila, Finland's envoy to the EU court, said during a press conference on Monday (19 September) p...

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