The Paris-based Groupe d'Economie Mondiale (GEM) at Sciences Po reports that France has begun releasing comprehensive data on farm subsidies, including Single Farm Payments (SFPs), following formal requests from GEM and others to the French government. Patrick Messerlin and Pierre Boulanger of the GEM call the developments "remarkable", noting that such a move "was almost inconceivable a few short months ago." Indeed, as these researchers point out, until recently Scotland was the only country in the European Union to release data on SFPs.
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