Blog - Richard Corbett MEP

UK Labour MEP for Yorkshire and the Humber (visit his website at www.richardcorbett.org.uk)

Monday, December 05, 2005

There will be much in the press regarding Britain's rebate negotiations. I recently wrote an article for the Guardian on the subject:
France cannot hold the rest of Europe hostage to its addiction to agricultural subsidies - especially when one sees who actually benefits from these subsidies: not so much the poor peasant farmers of the Massif Central as the rich industrial farmers of the Paris basin.

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