Fresh figures by international NGO Oxfam show that the biggest French farming businesses pocket the vast majority of EU agricultural subsidies, just as Paris is sittting down in Brussels to haggle over the common agricultural policy (CAP).
Oxfam research released on Monday (7 November) revealed that the top 15 percent of French farming companies consume 60 percent of the direct payments from the EU's coffers.
The findings are based on the European Commission’s own statistics, Oxf...
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