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Agricultural plans drawn up by EU countries to access the blocs 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 Unions 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 havent 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