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Environmentalists slam CAP reform as 'greenwashing'
By EUobserver
Green groups said the deal reached on Friday by representatives of EU governments and MEPs on the next Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) is "full of greenwashing". It was agreed that 20 percent of direct payments to farmers should flow into environmental-friendly projects in the first two years, raising to 25 percent in the final three years. The CAP does not include a binding alignment with the Green Deal.