Especially in the western part of France milk laboratories are actually blocked by a large number of dairy farmers. According to the french dairy farmers' association "Association des producteurs de lait indépendants (APLI)" about 60% of the french milk volume won't be delivered. With this action farmers want to dispose the…
video Talk EMB with Belgian delegation
video EMB Interview Belg. Agricult. minister Larulle
A huge eye was erected outside the building where the European Ministers of Agriculture are meeting in Brussels to symbolise the close eye every European milk producer is keeping on them. With tractors from the…
Spanish farmers will not deliver their products to the industry tomorrow. As the agricultural organisations COAG, ASAJA and UPA published, farmers from several agricultural sectors are on strike today and tomorrow to point out the dramatic agricultural situation. A big manifastation will take place in Madrid, Saturday, 21th…
The eyes of the European milk producers will be fixed on the European Ministers of Agriculture when they meet in Brussels on 20/11/2009.
France press voices:
<link fileadmin dokumente frankreich download file>Statement french Ministry of Alimentation, Agriculture and Fisheries (french)
Dutch Dairymen Board nominated for the 2009 EBN Europe Democracy Award - Press release DDB
In the context of the week of democracy, the European movement in the (EBN) has asked four Dutch members of European Parliament to nominate their favourite Dutch-European citizens’ initiatives for the EBN Europe…
Brussels, 10.11.2009: the European dairy farmers’ uprising in recent…
Thursday, November 5th Hungarian farmers protested in the cities Budapest, Györ, Pécs, Miskolc und Szeged. They demand regulations to stop cheap imports. To demonstrate how desperate the situation is, they put cow skulls on the streets and spilled milk. Because of dumping milk prices a great amount of dairy cattle has to be…
The institution announced that there are legal concerns about the system of price recommendation the french interprofessional organisation CNIEL performs. It expresses mayor doubts about arrangements such as agreed on in June 2009, when with the participation of the agricultural ministry target prices and certain market…
Czech Republic - massive protests
Several hundredthousand liter milk have been spilled on fields the 29th and the 30th of October in Czech Republik. The newspaper "Hospodarske Noviny" announced that it be the first time that farmers spill out their products in the country. The President of the agricultural chamber Jan Valeba…
