GREECE FIGHTS BACK AGAINST EUROPEAN COMMISSION ON FARMERS’ AID
January 1st, 2012
BY MICHAEL KOSMIDES, IN ATHENS
THE GREEK ministry of rural development has appealed at the European Court of Justice (ECJ) against a European Commission order that it collect from food producers and return to Brussels almost EUR425 million of European Union (EU) subsidies. The money had been given to farmers in 2008-9 by the then conservative New Democracy government as compensation for crop damages incurred in 2008. But the Commission has condemned this as an illegal state subsidy and has demanded the money be recouped.
The Greek government is hopeful it will ...
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