UAE royal family receives over 71 million euros in EU agricultural subsidies for farms in Romania, Italy, and Spain

The UAE royal family received over 71 million euros in EU agricultural subsidies. Subsidies from the EU's Common Agricultural Policy were paid to subsidiaries controlled by the Al Nahyan family for farmland in Romania, Italy, and Spain. The largest portion went to Romania's Agricost, the EU's biggest farm. This comes as the EU considers reforming its agricultural policy to better direct funds and potentially cap payments to large farms, amid concerns about transparency and funding reaching entities linked to authoritarian states.