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
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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
15.07.2011
ARC press release: ARC2020 calls upon European decision-makers to show courage for long-sighted farm, food & rural policy change
Brussels, July 14 2011 – ARC 2020, the alliance of civil society organisations from across Europe has pressed decision-makers to show courage in reforming the Common Agriculture Policy. At its European Conference which took place on 13 July at the Economic and Social Committee in Brussels, ARC members discussed CAP reform…
28.06.2011
Press release: Only a little light at the end of the tunnel
Resolution on the milk package of the Committee on Agriculture of the European parliament has some rays of hope – the future of the milk market remains, however, uncertain
