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New privacy rules keep 92% of Common Agricultural Policy beneficiaries secret
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Farmsubsidy.org estimates that fewer than one in ten beneficiaries of EU farm subsidies has been published this year. The total value of payments published is €22 billion, or 45 per cent of the annual CAP budget of €54 billion.
New privacy rules keep 92% of Common Agricultural Policy beneficiaries secret
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Farmsubsidy.org estimates that fewer than one in ten beneficiaries of EU farm subsidies has been published this year. The total value of payments published is €22 billion, or 45 per cent of the annual CAP budget of €54 billion.
New funding
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New funding secures farmsubsidy.org's future as a data journalism project for the next two years.
Let The Sunshine In
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We're calling for new rules to increase transparency in farm subsidies. Will you add your voice to our campaign?
2011 Farm Subsidy Data Harvest: Millionaires and Missing Money
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For the third year running, an international group of journalists, transparency activists and computer programmers gathered in Brussels for three days...
The Black Book of Austrian Agriculture
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Revelations by an Austrian investigative journalist have shaken the Austrian farming and political establishments.
Civil society common position on farm subsidy transparency
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The farmsubsidy.org network has agreed a common position on a future transparency regime for the common agricultural policy.
Reaction to ECJ ruling
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The European Court of Justice has ruled that the current system of publishing farm subsidy data is 'invalid'. Farmsubsidy.org's founders give their initial reaction.
Court threat to transparency in farm subsidies
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The European Court of Justice will soon rule on an appeal by two German farmers who object to being identified as recipients of EU farm subsides. The European Union Advocate General Eleanor Sharpston considers that current transparency rules are ‘i...
A Family Affair
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An investigation by two members of the farmsubsidy.org network has triggered a criminal investigation of misuses of EU funds by a former Bulgarian minister of agriculture.
Who Runs the CAP?
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Analysis showing how the European Union Agriculture Council is dominated by farmers, farm lobbyists and agribusiness at the expense of the rest of society.
Analysis presented at today's press conference in Brussels
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Thanks to everyone who came to the press conference / briefing session at the International Press Centre in Brussels this afternoon. It was a short but intense session in front of a packed audience and a great way to seal three intensive days of the...
Transparency at last - but now we need YOUR help!
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The long and winding road towards transparency in the 55 billion euro a year common agricultural policy passes a major milestone today, the deadline for all member states to begin publishing basic data on who gets what. Unfortunately for th...
EU-Recht? Ist Berlin doch egal!
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Ab dem 30. April – so die Entscheidung der EU und ihrer Mitgliedsländer – soll offengelegt werden, wer die gut 50 Milliarden jährlicher Euro an Agrarsubventionen bekommt. Aber jetzt will die neue Ministerin in Berlin die Durchführung der gemei...
Press Release: German backsliding on farm subsidy transparency is a disgrace
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PRESS RELEASE: IMMEDIATE Just days before the 30 April deadline for disclosure of recipients of EU farm subsidies, the German farms minister Ilse Aigner has requested that the principle of budget transparency be suspended. Jack Thurston, co-...
First European Open Data Summit: 5-7 May, Brussels
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The people who brought European Union farm subsidy payments into the open (and who are behind the FollowTheMoney.eu website) are proud to announce the first European Open Data Summit, 5-7 May, in Brussels. The Summit will bring together the farmsubsi...
Uncovering farm subsidies in Spain: a new dossier published
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Spain is the second biggest recipient of EU farm subsidies after France yet the question of who gets what is rarely discussed. Farmsubsidy.org has spent the past six months investigating by obtaining, compiling cleaning and analysing an enormous quan...
Lots of new data now online
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Over the past few days we have added a lot of new data to the farmsubsidy.org online database. The data, which mostly relates to rural development expenditure, comes from the following countries: Austria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Ger...
After three years, victory on UK data
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Just over three years ago I asked the Rural Payments Agency to release detailed data on farm subsidy recipients in the UK, going back to 1999/2000, the first year for which a new system of recording payments for audit purposes was introduced. The RPA...
New farm subsidy payment websites are not up to scratch
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Several EU member states have unveiled farm subsidy data websites under the new law on transparency of EU funds. However, of the handful we have seen, only the UK website meets the important legal requirement that as well as a website search tool, us...
