Article: For E.U. food aid, no farm needed Recipients of euro 50 billion include gravel factories, royalty and candy makers

DOREEN CARVAJAL and STEPHEN CASTLE International Herald Tribune
International Herald Tribune
07-18-2009
For E.U. food aid, no farm needed Recipients of euro 50 billion include gravel factories, royalty and candy makers
Byline: DOREEN CARVAJAL and STEPHEN CASTLE International Herald Tribune
Edition: 1
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 1.6 million, or about $2.2 million, in farm subsidies from the European Union, which doled out more than euro 50 billion last year from the largest agricultural aid program ...

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