CAP: Who receives the most European subsidies?

Criticized by angry farmers, particularly because of the standards imposed on its beneficiaries, the common agricultural policy nonetheless remains an essential source of financing for French farms. Because even if the European Union has greatly expanded the scope of its financial interventions in recent years, the CAP remains one of its largest expenditure items. In 2022, it would exceed 52 billion euros, or a third of what the EU spent that year. And, as economist François Ecalle points out, on X (ex-Txitter), France remains the country which benefits the most from this European windfall. In 2022, French farmers will receive 9.4 billion euros from Brussels under the CAP. Another figure which shows how much this aid is concentrated on a limited number of Member States: the four countries which benefit the most from agricultural subsidies (France, Spain, Germany and Italy) alone receive more than half (53%). . Hence the fact that a good number of Member States which benefit the ...