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Statement of Bruno le Maire, french minister of Agriculture, concerning the emergency plan for french agricultural sector (french) - "Plan d'urgence en faveur de l'agriculture"

<link fileadmin dokumente frankreich download file>Statement french Ministry of Alimentation, Agriculture and Fisheries (french)

New day of activities in west of France -…

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Netherlands

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…

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Press Release: Meeting with High Level Group

Grasp the opportunity and strengthen the milk producers’ position in the market

The EU governments’ High Level Group Milk met today. The European Milk Board is calling for basic conditions to enable the dairy farmers to become equal players in the market

Brussels, 10.11.2009: the European dairy farmers’ uprising in recent…

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Hungarian farmers protesting with cow skulls

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…

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French Antitrust authority doubts the new modell of French Interprofession

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…

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Protest actions in Czech Republic, Germany and Italy

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…

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Newsletter November

EMB Newsletter November here

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28.10.09 Update

News from Czech Republic: tomorrow quite big events are planned

Milk producers, mainly from the region south Moravia (Brno) and Vysocina region (central part of CZ), tomorrow on 8 places in the Czech Republic the milk will be spread out on the fields, similar to the actions in France, Germany and many other countries in Europe…

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27.10.09 Update

 AFP-MAIL : Agriculture-social-gouvernement-UE

Sarkozy demands commission to spark the fire

POLIGNY (Jura), 27 oct 2009 (AFP) - Nicolas Sarkozy asks the European Commission to speed their work for a new regulation of the dairy sector. The Comission has already reacted on the demands of France and Germany and set up a High…

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23.10.09 Update

Germany:

BDM Presseinfo: Marktmaßnahmen der Milcherzeuger wirken

(Freising) Rund 500.000 t Milch haben die europäischen Milcherzeuger dem Milchmarkt während ihrer Aktionen im September 2009 nicht zugeführt. Damit haben sie die seit wenigen Wochen spürbare Aufwärtsentwicklung im Milchmarkt massiv beschleunigt.
Was eine…

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