THESSALONIKI:Thessaloniki farmer Anna Aivazidi’s blood boils when she thinks of the huge sums siphoned off in a major EU farm subsidy scandal.
“I earn 300 euros ($355) in subsidies a year. I struggle to produce every day. I feel extremely wronged,” the 40-year-old told AFP.
“Subsidies should go to real producers,” she said.
Aivazidi is among thousands of Greek farmers who say they were penalized for years while others profited, in a massive scam allegedly assisted by government officials.
The scheme began following a change in the European Union’s Common Agricultural Policy, which in 2014 shifted subsidies from livestock to land.
