Jackthurston re publica

Follow The Money: Budget Transparency the EU Way re-publica 16 April 2010 Jack Thurston Co-founder, farmsubsidy.org

If citizens knew how the EU spends €55 billion a year on farm subsidies... Would they approve?

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6 | | BUSINESS Business & Media | 21.05.06 CASH COWS WHAT IT COSTS THE TAXPAYER TO DESTABILISE DAIRY MARKETS British export subsidies, by Export subsidy granted, by company, 2004 and 2005 destination country, 2004 and 2005 Fayreﬁeld Foods* £22,149,818 Philpot Dairy Products £21,957,002 SAUDI Dale ARABIA Farm* £19,391,504 £2,147,003 INDIA £1,244,914 Nestle UK £7,442,672 JA N APAN UAE BANGLADESH £1,24 273 £ 44,2 ALGERIA £6,016,605 £3,479,499 £9,413,948 TMC Dairies EGYP YPT (NI) £6,421,069 MEXICO £3,03 340 ,031,340 £7,714,200 PH IPPINE PHILIP NES JAMAICA JA AICA £1,7 ,901 ,708,9 £2,296,9 7 £2 296,987 OMA OMAN Hoogwegt £4,660,97 ,660,973 International £6,016,872 SUDAN THAILA D HAILAND IVORY COAST IVO £3,906,970 £6 06,805 £6,706,80 VENEZUELA £5,722,515 722,515 Lakeland Dairies £2,274,752 (NI) £4,863,754 NIGERIA £11,782,308 IND INDONESIA ESIA £2,94 8 £2,947,118 Eilers & Wheeler Sales £4,009,257 Meadow Foods £3,335,750 KEY F Uhrenholt Dairy £3,084,188 *includes subsidiaries £1 to £4m £4 to £7m £7m+ £0m 5 10 15 20 GRAPHIC: CATH LEVETT PHOTOGRAPH: ALAMY SOURCE: FARMSUBSIDY.COM Who’s creaming off EU subsidies? Exports of cheap European dairy products are crushing the livelihoods of developing world farmers, writes Heather Stewart ritish-based exporters, including known as the EU ‘butter mountain’ cow is one of the most reliable ways of on behalf of the EU, said Britain would Nestle and Dairy Crest, have (‘wine lakes’ were another manifestation Peter Mandelson lifting yourself out of poverty,’ says like to see them abolished. claimed £126m of taxpayers’ of the same problem). But after a barrage agreed to Europe Thurston, who is trying to compile a ‘We would prefer that export refunds

EU Budget, 2007-2013 Admin Jobs, growth, 6% security, justice, foreign policy, overseas aid, 43% Farm subsidies climate, energy, 51% environment, R&D, science & innovation...

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Top 18% of recipients get 85% of the money

“In conclusion, the current system fails to deliver value for Through taxpayers’ money” the green smokescreen BirdLife International, November 2009 How is CAP cross compliance delivering for biodiversity?

Behind the headlines

European Transparency Initiative

That’s 27 websites to screen scrape! (even though the European Commission possesses all the data itself)

Governments

✔ Name ✔Municipality ✔ Amount

✘ Business ID ✘ Geodata ✘ Schemes

A few lessons learned

Thanks for listening! Jack Thurston Co-founder, farmsubsidy.org jack@farmsubsidy.org

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