GREECE – CAP PAYMENTS

BY KEITH NUTHALL
GREECE has been told to repay Euro 34.54 million in European Union (EU) subsidies because of deficiencies in its management and control of livestock extensification premium payments, from 2001-2003. Ordering the repayments, EU agriculture Commissioner Mariann Fischer Boel said: "We will not hesitate to recover misspent money from member states."



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