EU To Publicize Subsidy Data

A news item which appeared last week on a wide variety of sources, including EurActiv, announces that recipient nations of EU farm subsidies must make public the names and amounts received of all individual claimants. Websites providing this information must be up and running by April 30, 2009. At the very least, the results will be interesting and will provide much fodder for parties, such as this writer/grower, who rail against the absolutely unfair manner in which the CAP is calculated.