Wildlife to suffer if UK proposals for European funding cuts are approved
By Duncan Lumsden in Brussels
Published: 10 December 2005
Europe's wildlife will suffer if EU leaders next week accept the UK proposals for a reduced European budget, the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds has warned.
It said Britain, which holds the rotating EU presidency, had proposed massive cuts in eco-friendly rural subsidies as part of its attempt to broker agreement on a new-look EU budget for the next seven years. That would reverse a hard-fought reform two years ago that geared the common agricultural policy (CAP) subsidy closer to environmental concerns, the group said.
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