Brussels unaware of move to stop organic farm funds

The European Commission appears to person been unaware of the Greek Agriculture Ministry’s determination to propulsion the plug connected the 2024 subsidy programme for integrated farming. Sources successful Brussels, successful fact, told Kathimerini that officials learned astir it from the Greek press, saying they should person been officially informed. 

The ministry halted the programme past week aft checks recovered that “an overwhelming percentage” of beneficiaries did not comply with the criteria for funding. “If we don’t transportation retired these inspections, we hazard the inflow of European resources,” Minister Kostas Tsiaras said, announcing caller checks connected whether standards are being met.

Over successful Brussels, however, Commission sources noted that the EU’s enforcement needs to beryllium informed whenever European cultivation subsidies are going to beryllium being withheld oregon redirected. “The Commission had not received immoderate such notification by October 7” from Greece, they added.