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Updated: May 21, 2025
The cotton, rice and groundnut oil subventions generously doled out to growers in the United States the EU's most vocal critic harm the third world smallholders and sharecroppers it purports to defend.
As the endgame nears, the parties to the negotiations are posturing, though. EU enlargement commissioner, Gunter Verheugen, argued a fortnight ago against equalizing support for Poland's 6 million farmers with the subsidies given to the EU's 8 million smallholders. In a typical feat of incongruity he said it will prevent them from modernizing and alienate other professions.
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