{"id":281911,"date":"2016-09-29T19:52:00","date_gmt":"2016-09-29T23:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/?p=281911"},"modified":"2020-11-01T19:58:32","modified_gmt":"2020-11-02T00:58:32","slug":"saudi-prince-queen-elizabeth-handed-900k-eu-taxpayer-funded-subsidies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/ro\/saudi-prince-queen-elizabeth-handed-900k-eu-taxpayer-funded-subsidies\/","title":{"rendered":"Saudi prince &amp; Queen Elizabeth handed \u00a3900K EU taxpayer-funded subsidies"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #008080\"><strong>RAEL\u2019S COMMENT:<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #008080\"><strong>A true scandal!<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>A Saudi prince and the Queen have been named in a list of wealthy landowners in the UK who receive hundreds of thousands of pounds in taxpayer-funded EU subsidies.<\/p>\n<p>Prince Khalid Abdullah al Saud receives more than \u00a3400,000 ($520,000) a year to subsidize a farm in Newmarket, Suffolk, while Queen Elizabeth II receives \u00a3557,706 a year.<\/p>\n<p>Both landowners are among the top 100 recipients of farm grants from the EU\u2019s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP).<\/p>\n<p>At least one in five of the top 100 recipients of CAP subsidies were farms owned or controlled by members of aristocratic families, a Greenpeace investigation found.<\/p>\n<p>CAP was introduced in 1962 in a bid to stimulate European agricultural production. It continues to be one of the EU\u2019s largest expenditures, constituting 39 percent of the budget in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Greenpeace are campaigning for CAP to be reformed, saying it is an \u201coutrage\u201d subsidies are given to wealthy persons like Khalid Abdullah al Saud, who owns the prize-winning thoroughbred racehorse, Frankel, said to be worth over \u00a3100 million.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe subsidy system is utterly broken. We need public money spent on farming to be offering demonstrable public benefits,\u201d Greenpeace chief scientist Doug Parr told BBC News.<\/p>\n<p>Aberdeenshire farmer Frank Smart receives the most CAP subsidies in the UK, taking in nearly \u00a33 million in grants for his business, Frank A Smart &amp; Son Ltd.<\/p>\n<p>Aristocrats are also big beneficiaries, with Lord Iveagh receiving \u00a3915,709, the Duke of Westminster taking home \u00a3427,433 and the Duke of Northumberland benefitting by \u00a3475,030.<\/p>\n<p>Conservative MP Richard Drax is also in the top 100 beneficiaries. His jointly-owned farm received \u00a3351,752.<\/p>\n<p>The Taxpayers\u2019 Alliance said: \u201cFarmers should be put on notice. Taxpayers shouldn\u2019t be handing out what are effectively land subsidies, often to extremely wealthy individuals.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Asked if the Queen thought it appropriate to receive taxpayers\u2019 subsidy based on the size of her land holding, a spokesman for Buckingham Palace told the BBC: \u201cSubsidies are open to all farmers, and are received on the Queen\u2019s private estate. We would not comment beyond the detail that is already in the public domain.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/uk\/361059-saudi-prince-queen-elizabeth\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">https:\/\/www.rt.com\/uk\/361059-saudi-prince-queen-elizabeth\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RAEL\u2019S COMMENT: A true scandal! &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":281912,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-281911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281911\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/281912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}