A win for transparency in the EU

A seven year (and continuing) battle as brought us farmsubsidy.org - a website that catalogs who European farm subsidies are paid out to. The Common Agricultural Policy, which guides who pays and who receives across the European is incredibly contentious, but a kind of EU political third rail. Previously, this was a closely guarded secret, but an army of FOI requests is slowly prying the information lose, where the farmsubsidy.org people post it. The site even lists the countries along a side bar and gives a little icon for the status of their data. The Guardian has the skinny in an article entitled So that's where the €100 billion went:

All 27 EU countries will disclose data revealing details of some €100bn given in subsidies by the Eurotaxpayer every year to farmers, food companies, industrial regeneration schemes and the fishing industry, from the Black Sea resorts in Bulgaria and Romania to the Canary Islands and Madeira.

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