Finland has lost its battle to make national farm subsidies permanent. Finland's minister of agriculture is worried that this could spell the end of family farms.
Finland's EU accession treaty - which came into force in 1995 - contains a provision that Finland may continue to pay national subsidies to farmers in the southern part of the country. This provision will expire at the end of 2003. The Finnish government wants to make i...
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