farming subsidies

Farming subsidies at present are running at £1m. per day.

Exactly the same is true with regard to the opportunities available to us to further reduce the traditional role of farming subsidies.

This is a most interesting debate on farming and farming subsidies.

Farming subsidies, the largest and most contentious budgetary factor, should be renationalised.

Farmers in France, Germany and other countries, for example, are unhappy because the community recently decided to reduce its farming subsidies.

Senator Harkin is attempting to protect the corporate farming subsidies by adding provisions that help the nation as a whole.

This year, 58 percent of the budget has been spent on farming subsidies, while 30 percent has gone to helping backward regions or countries.

The European Commission's lack of consistency over energy as well as farming subsidies is also regrettable.

Conrad is also opposed to most free-trade measures, and is a strong supporter of farming subsidies to family farmers.

The cutting of farming subsidies given over past few decades has created an uncertain future for farming in many parts of Europe.

Isn't the problem here that those responsible for our landcsape are addicted to farming subsidies and top down management of certain preferred habitats and species.

After a second budget later in the year, Moss demanded the continuation of farming subsidies to prevent "alarm and despondency" from spreading still further.

Celso Amorim, Brazil's foreign minister, has condemned farming subsidies as "the most harmful single piece of commerce."

Asked to explain under what grounds it was eligible to receive farming subsidies, Eton admitted that it was 'a bit of a mystery'.

Commission officials said the community would contribute $2.6 billion a year toward phasing out programs of social, regional and farming subsidies in the former East German territory.

And by terminating trade-distorting farming subsidies, Washington would defuse a potent source of feverish anti-Americanism.

In order for the EU Member States to remain even remotely self-sufficient, it is high time we renationalised our farming subsidies.

In the Fourth Labour Government he oversaw the removal of farming subsidies and the establishment of a fisheries quota system.

The July 2006 talks in Geneva failed to reach an agreement about reducing farming subsidies and lowering import taxes, and negotiations took months to resume.

Last year, with more publicity than success, they even tried to besiege Paris with tractors to protest cutbacks in European Community farming subsidies.

Abolition of the EU and US farming subsidies is also vital if we are to combat global poverty and hunger.

The impetus of this week's meeting disappeared after the United States and the 12-nation European Community agreed early on to defer a dispute over farming subsidies.

These alerts provide information on tackling pests, the optimum times for planting different crops, farming subsidies on offer, weather forecasts, local produce fairs and crop prices.

The fact that they did so, though, reflected their alarm that a bitter dispute over farming subsidies and supports is threatening to ruin four years of trade liberalization negotiations.

Panorama revealed in March 2012 that farming subsidies were granted to Eton for 'environmental improvements', in effect 'being paid without having to do any farming at all'.