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

La Malagueta bullring in Malaga, Spain. MEPs have made several attempts to ban subsidies to farms breeding fighting bulls. Photograph: Jesús Mérida/SOPA Images/REX/Shutterstock

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.