Anger over plan to force UK farmers to display pro-Brussels billboards or face having their funding withdrawn

A scheme forcing farmers to display signs if they receive EU funding is ‘insulting’ to British taxpayers, campaigners said yesterday.

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New regulations mean landowners who receive money from Brussels to protect the countryside must erect billboards and so-called ‘gratitude plaques’, or pay the money back. Eurosceptics warned the signs would blight the countryside the EU cash was supposed to protect, and would form part of the ‘EU propaganda machine’ ahead of the referendum on Britain’s membership. Read more: