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The daughter of a former Bulgarian minister appears to have received EUR 700,000 in EU aid last year, according to data, revealed by the Danish and british-based pro-transparency NGO Farmsubsidy.org and cited by EUobserver.
Galina Dimitrova Peicheva-Miteva, the 27-year-old daughter of Dimitar Peichev, Bulgaria's deputy agriculture minister until July 2009, who was responsible for handling EU funds, got €700,000 from the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) last year, the NGO alleges.
Peicheva-Miteva owns a number of trading firms, some of which involve her father and mother, but took the EU money as a private person, making her Bulgaria's largest individual CAP beneficiary.
The detail came up after Farmsubsidy.org, a group of journalists and computer specialists, trawled government websites of the 27 EU countries over the past two days, a regular exercise ever since an EU law in 2008 forced capitals to reveal who gets what out of the €55 billion a year farm pot.
Other curious beneficiaries include a Swedish accordion club that won EUR 59,585 from the EU farming programme; a Danish billiards club with EUR 31,515; an Estonian school almuni society on EUR 44,884; a Dutch ice-skating club with EUR 162,444; a Dutch amateur football club on EUR 354,567; and the Netherland's Schipol Airport with EUR 98,864.
"If you look closely at the [EU] wording, the CAP also includes money for development. But at a time when we are starting to have a serious debate about the future of the policy, we should ask whether farm money should really be going to music clubs and airports," Danish journalist and Framsubsidy.or co-founder Brigitte Alfter told EUobserver.
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