For a few days now, EU Commission President Jean Claude Juncker has been receiving very special mail. To protest against the European Commission's destructive milk policy, dairy farmers from all over Europe have been sending fresh milk to his office. Among others, they blame him for not reacting to the European Milk Board (EMB)'s open letter, in which the organisation had called for EU Agriculture Commissioner Phil Hogan to be removed from his office. Juncker thus just stands and watches while an important pillar of EU agriculture – i.e. milk producers – is not only dangerously weakened, but is truly brought to collapse. Chronicle overproduction and the consequent low milk prices literally tear away dairy farmers' livelihoods. Nonetheless, Hogan and Juncker refuse to implement a crisis instrument for the milk market that would require no subsidies. They just keep their eyes shut to the negative consequences this ignorant policy has on jobs and development – and thus on stability in and beyond the agricultural sector.
Too much milk creates problems! This is the message to President Juncker, who will now experience this up close. Pictures of the European protest campaign are available here.
Contacts
EMB President Romuald Schaber (DE): +49 (0)160 352 4703
EMB press contact Silvia Däberitz (DE, EN, FR): +32 (0)2 808 1936
