EU farm subsidies create unnecessarily high grocery prices for European consumers while depriving African farmers of their livelihood, a British daily announced on Tuesday (16 May) in a new campaign.
While British households pay an extra €1,222 a year for groceries due to EU trade-distorting subsidies to the union's own farmers, dumping of subsidised EU produce in African countries is forcing local producers out of business, The Independent reports.
"Not only does the Common Agr...
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