Paris / Berlin, 02.09.2010: The European Milk Board (EMB) has presented the Franco-German working group, initiated by the Ministries for Agriculture in Germany and in France, with a list of ten minimum criteria. This list defines the conditions which contracts between milk producers and the dairy industry, have to meet. EMB…
The Swiss show Migros the red card
On the 27th of July, BIG-M, the Swiss member organisation of the European Milk Board, organised a so-called cattle processsion in Zurich, in order to highlight the unfair dealings in the milk market and to protest against the business practices of MIGROS, one of the biggest retail chains in…
Instruments for the milk production adapted to the society’s needs.
The conference „CAP post 2013“concluded yesterday in the late afternoon in Brussels. The majority of participants came to the conclusion that a comprehensive reform of the EU
agricultural policy is needed. Representatives of the European Milk Board (EMB)…
The conference “CAP post-2013”, organised by European Commissioner for Agriculture Dacian Ciolos, takes place in Brussels on the 19th and 20th of July. The European Milk Board is a member of the Agricultural and Rural Convention (ARC), a civil society alliance committed to a paradigm shift in agricultural policy and the…
The protest highlighted: the proposals of the EU HLG are threatening our livelihoods - Alternatives are required.
Over one hundred milk producers gathered on July 12, to demonstrate against the inaction of the branch organisation milk (BO Milk) regarding the dairy market situation.
In order to point out their discontent, producers filled up a swimming pool with milk and they put figurines of representatives of the branch organisation to…
The report of the High Level Group on Milk (HLGM) that will be discussed today by the European Council of Agriculture Ministers cannot solve the milk crisis. European Coordination Via Campesina (ECVC) and European Milk Board (EMB) make one thing clear at their demonstration: fair prices for producers and supply management are…
EMB presents cabinet of Dacian Ciolos, European Commissioner for Agriculture, with a groundbreaking draft regulation
Around 150 New York dairy famers as well as hundreds of others around the country, held a „Dump the Milk“ protest on July 4, 2010 to highlight the problem of low milk prices. West Winfield farmers Dave and Robin Fitch helped to organise „the Fourth of July Take Back Your Independence Day Dump“ where dairy famers nationwide were…
by European Coordination Via Campesina and European Milk Board
