Well done Brussels: another little French fiddle comes to an end

[woolybanana]

It seems that European, frozen chicken exporters have been receiving a nice little backhander when exporting frozen chickens, from Brussels, and France was the almost the only beneficiary. It amounted to a cool  €53.36 million in 2012/13. Of course they are cross at having this nice little bit of pocket money taken away, but then, they would wonldn't they.

Well done Brussels, for once.

http://www.lemonde.fr/economie/article/2013/07/19/les-volaillers-bretons-protestent-contre-la-fin-des-aides-europeennes_3449969_3234.html

and for the dedicated, here is the translation:

http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=fr&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.lemonde.fr%2Feconomie%2Farticle%2F2013%2F07%2F19%2Fles-volaillers-bretons-protestent-contre-la-fin-des-aides-europeennes_3449969_3234.html

[nomoss]

Be fair! French farmers are only getting 93% of the total subsidy [:(]

 

Edit: The subsidies are to be reduced by 50%, not removed as the rag says.

 

 

[Frederick]

Nomoss wrote :Be fair! French farmers are only getting 93% of the total subsidy

And that's just chickens.... There are ducks turkeys and rabbits sold in large quantities in France  Are they on the same percentage  hand out ?

Our local market had a woman cooking up and selling from a huge pan of frogs legs ........which if we dare raises the question  ?

[woolybanana]

It is only the subsidy on frozen exports that is being removed.

[Frederick]

[quote user="woolybanana"]It is only the subsidy on frozen exports that is being removed.[/quote]

And are frogs exported !   Well what do you know !     http://www.dsidata.com/uploads/frog20100.pdf

[Benjamin]

I'ts like the subsides paid to Greek tobacco growers until someone in Brussels woke up and realised the EU was trying to dissuade people from smoking.

[Alan Zoff]

Well after all, eu does mean "had" in French. Perhaps we have been.