Bullfighting still benefits from millions of euros a year in EU farming subsidies

Public funds to farms breeding bulls keeping cruel practice' of bullfighting alive, say animal rights campaigners

Bullfighting across Europe is being kept alive by millions of euros paid out by the EU, claim campaigners, despite attempts by MEPs to ban the subsidies.

The funding goes to farms that breed bulls for fighting through the EU's common agricultural policy (CAP), a long-running system of subsidy support to the sector.