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BRUSSELS has splurged hundreds of millions of pounds of taxpayers’ money on buying rotten fruit from eastern European farmers to compensate them for loss of business due to its punitive sanctions against Vladimir Putin.
Eurocrats have ploughed £343m (€400m) of public cash into a scheme to keep producers afloat in EU member states which rely heavily on Russia as a principle export market for fruit and vegetables.

The EU banned trade as part of an embargo on Mr Putin’s government, in response to their aggression against Ukraine.

Instead, officials are going around buying up food which has been left to rot in the fields because it cannot be sent across the border.
Russia has also put a crackdown on selling non-domestic products in retaliation, which has seen mountains of cheese bulldozed, fruit steamrolled and bacon burnt.

British taxpayers have so far coughed up around £52million for the madcap scheme, with EU figures showing Poland, Spain, Italy, Greece and Belgium have been the main recipients of cash.