Fields of Gold: Lifting the Veil on Europe’s Farm Subsidies
The European Union spends €55 billion a year on farm subsidies. Until recently the question of where the money goes was a closely-guarded secret. But thanks to a campaign by journalists, researchers and computer programmers, European taxpayers now have the right to know how their tax money is spent. This short film tells the story of farmsubsidy.org.
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[...] Farm Subsidies October 1, 2009 paddyK Leave a comment Go to comments Thanks to an article over on Sound and Fury, I discovered that the entire database of EU farm subsidies is now available on-line for our [...]