EMB Newsletter December online

Dear Dairy Farmers and Interested Parties,

A year full of work and excitement is coming to a close for the European Milk Board. An opportunity for the Board to sum it up in brief. And we venture a cautious look ahead.

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The Caesar Prize for Advertising: the “Fair Milk Luxemburg” packaging comes second

The packaging design of the “d’fair Mëllech” brand Luxemburg came a proud second place in the awarding of the Austrian Caesar Prize for Advertising 2012 in the “Packaging” category.

The Caesar Prize 2012 award ceremony was held in Linz on 22 November. Berthe Elsen, Member of the Board of Fairkooperativ Letzebuerg, accepted the...

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European dairy policy: Joint statement by ECVC, EMB and FFE

At the conference on European dairy policy organised by the Confédération Paysanne and the European Coordination Via Campesina (ECVC), the ECVC, the EMB (European Milk Board) and FFE (Fairness for Farmers in Europe) issued the following statement:

- Farmers do not want to produce more for less.

- A healthy dairy economy...

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Milk farmers continue their protests at the European Parliament

Commissioner Dacian Ciolos is present when milk producers commemorate 157.000 closures of farms since 2009.

(Brussels, 27.11.2012) More than 3500 milk producers are demonstrating since yesterday with about 1000 tractors outside the European Parliament. Today they commemorated their more than 157.000 colleagues who had to...

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International solidarity organisations support milk farmers

NGOs from Belgium and many African farmers’ organisations, affected by milk export,  mobilised in order to support the legitimate demands of dairy farmers in their milk strike. Defending fair and profitable prices was and still is a legitimate and justified demand.

By abolishing milk quotas, the European Union has decided...

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