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EU farm subsidies: who's benefiting?

EU farm subsidies: who's benefiting?

Is the European farm subsidy system being left vulnerable to corruption?

Business Daily · BBC World Service

February 17, 202017m 28s

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Show Notes

Is the European farm subsidy system being left vulnerable to corruption? Each year the EU pays out billions of euros to landowners. But a New York Times investigation found that in parts of Eastern Europe, EU farm subsidies have created what it calls a "new kind of feudalism". We speak to the New York Times investigative reporter Matt Apuzzo, and we hear a response from the European Commission's agricultural policy spokesperson Daniel Rosario.

Producer: Joshua Thorpe.

(Picture: A combine harvester on a corn field. Credit: Getty Images).