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1.6 million farmers receive almost 85 percent of the EU’s agricultural subsidies

By |May 24th, 2019|Tags: , |

A large part of the EU's budget is devoted to supporting agriculture. Yet farmers receive a given amount per hectare – so large farms receive way more money than the small ones, to the extent that 25 percent of all EU farmers receive only 1.3 percent of the available funds.