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Agricultural plans drawn up by EU countries to access the bloc’s massive subsidies are not climate friendly enough and do not adequately protect the environment, top policy auditors warned on Monday. The “green design” of the European Union’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) is better, said Nikolaos Milionis, the lead auditor of the investigation said in a statement. “However, compared with the past, we haven’t seen substantial differences in the member states’ agricultural plans,” he added. Totalling €378.5 billion ($424 billion), CAP is worth nearly a third of the EU budget and is meant to s…

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