Data on European farm subsidy payments made available

Farmsubsidy.org is a project coordinated by the Danish International Center for Analytical Reporting (DICAR) and EU Transparency, a nonprofit organization in the United Kingdom. The Web site obtains detailed data relating to payments and recipients of farm subsidies in every EU member state and makes this data available to European citizens. Subsidies paid to farmers under the European Union's Common Agricultural Policy amount to approximately €43.5 billion a year, more than 40% of European Union's entire annual budget, or around €100 a year for each EU citizen. Coordinated from Denmark and the UK, the Web site is the product of intensive collaboration across more than 10 countries.