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19.01.2012

PR: The same goes for the financial market and the dairy market:

There must be clear rules! A proposed solution for European milk supply

 

07.12.2011

PR: Milk producers’ interests put on the back burner in the new Milk Package

The European Commission, Parliament and Council of Ministers’ agreement on the Milk Package totally ignores the milk producers’ situation

29.11.2011

PR on the European dairy farmers’ protest campaign: Prevent butter mountains instead of dumping them

Lausanne, the 29th of November 2011: Today Swiss dairy farmers together with fellow milk producers from Europe demonstrated impressively in Basel and Geneva how senseless it is to export at dumping prices.

08.11.2011

PR: Does the dairy market have to follow the financial markets? An approach to solving the problem of milk supply in Europe

The cause of the international financial and debt crisis and of the crisis in the dairy sector is the same. In both cases the policy-makers shirked responsibility, reasoning that the respective sector would work better if left to free market forces. In countries the world over both the public and the state have seen how wrong…

08.11.2011

The European Milk Board congratulates its Dutch members to the market launch of the fair milk

With the rollout of the de faire melk fair-trade chokolate milk the Dutch EMB member organisation NMV (Dutch association of dairy farmers) becomes a new member of the European Fair-Milk Family

 

13.10.2011

ARC2020 Press Release: Citizens speak out!

The status quo is not an option!

We need sustainable, resilient food systems, not defence of vested self-interests

06.10.2011

Press Release: EU Council Ignores Threat to Milk Producers’ Livelihood

In negotiations on the dairy market reform, the EU Council obstinately opposes major progress such as a monitoring agency and binding contracts for dairies throughout the EU

30.09.2011

Swiss producers want to be able to control their production in order to pay no more export subsidies

Uniterre, a swiss EMB member organisation published today a press prelease demanding a volume regulation in dairy farmers hands and the abolishment of export dumping towards developping countries. It is available in French and German. Please click on the flag this side up on the left to get one of these versions.

16.09.2011

Press release: Fair Contracts, not Dependency

The France MilkBoard presents a model contract with fair terms and conditions for French milk producers at the SPACE agricultural fair