European Farmers Want More Aid?
European farmers who have been hit by drought accompany this summer’s heat wave are asking the European Union for more aid.
That’s right, the most excessively subsidized farmers in the world want even more financial help from the state. Copa-Cogeca, which represents European farmers, wrote a letter to the European Commission and the Council of Ministers asking for aid to relieve this “natural disaster.”
What, as opposed to the man-made disaster that Europe’s excessive subsidies and entry barriers for agricultural programs have created in its former colonies in Africa?
Talk about throwing good money after bad.
Source:
Drought-hit farmers plead for aid. The BBC, July 21, 2003.
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