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telegraph.co.uk     14-May-2008            

It does seem odd that the average British family shells out over £450 a year to pay for European agriculture subsidies, including cash to artificially inflate prices, at a time when the cost of food is increasing. The European Union’s Common Agricultural Policy was a lot easier to swallow when... [read full story]                    


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