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Thu 09 Sep 2008Agriculture businesses top Cap list for payouts
THE TOP 10 Irish recipients of money from the Common Agricultural Policy (Cap) are not farmers but big businesses, the man who runs a watchdog website on EU subsidies said yesterday.
Jack Thurston, adviser to former UK agriculture minister Nick Brown, said billions which should be going to help struggling farmers were being paid instead to companies.
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