The European Commission has drafted a letter scolding the Finnish EU presidency for foot-dragging on plans to publish who receives what from the EU's €43 billion a year farm aid pot, after Germany this week agreed to full disclosure on recipients of Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) funds.
The letter - which has not yet been sent and is due to be signed either by administration commissioner Siim Kallas or commission president Jose Manuel Barroso -suggests that Finnish prime minister Mat...
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Andrew Rettman is EUobserver's foreign editor, writing about foreign and security issues since 2005. He is Polish, but grew up in the UK, and lives in Brussels. He has also written for The Guardian, The Times of London, and Intelligence Online.