Article: The E.U. spends more than half its budget on farm subsidies, but a lot of the money doesn't go to farmers.

DOREEN CARVAJAL and STEPHEN CASTLE International Herald Tribune
International Herald Tribune
07-17-2009
The E.U. spends more than half its budget on farm subsidies, but a lot of the money doesn't go to farmers.
Byline: DOREEN CARVAJAL and STEPHEN CASTLE International Herald Tribune
Edition: 4
Section: NEWS

Arids Roma is a gritty Catalan construction company in the northeast of Spain that paves highways and churns out dusty gray mountains of gravel from several sprawling factories.

It is also a beneficiary of euro 1.59 million in farm subsidies from the European Union, which last year doled out more than euro 50 billion, $71 billion, from the largest agricultural aid program in the world, one ...

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