Switzerland
Today since 7.30 am: blocade of milktrucks in western Switzerland
Tomorrow: action against export subsidies, fires of protestation
All the time information of farmers at animal expositions, etc. about current situation of milk sector
Austria
Today: meeting in Parliament
Tomorrow: big fires of protestation
5,000 demonstrating dairy farmers take note of the proposals put forward by the Ministers of Agriculture and the Commission of the EU on setting up a High-Level Group. However, they are expecting serious steps towards flexible supply control.
Brussels, 06.10.2009: 5,000 dairy farmers from France, Germany, Belgium, Austria, the…
Estimado Romuald.
Hemos seguido con atención los acontecimientos de su lucha en Europa y les expresamos nuestra solidaridad fraternal, aunque retrazado el documento, espero que sea util para levantar mas los animos de los lecheros que estan luchando por sus justas demandas.
Un fuerte abrazo.
Aldo Gonzalez
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Today more than 1000 tractors and 5000 dairy farmers of the European Milk Board (EMB) are demonstrating in front of the EU-Council building where an EMB delegation meets the President of the Agricultural Council Eskil Erlandsson in the run up to today´s meeting of EU agricultural ministers concerning the milk issue. They are…
Campaigns of action in nine European countries. Their European Ministers of Agriculture have to defuse the situation at the their Council meeting on 5 October and introduce the change of political system required
video - Germany - lady farmers in Berlin
Hamm, 2.10.2009: Today the dairy farmers initiated…
Talks with Chancellor Merkel and EMB-President Romuald Schaber with an attending President of the Farmers association DBV Sonnleitner have resulted in an agreement of Merkel to use the national possibilities like freezing the quota incrase, limit the netting and adjust the exchange factor at european level. As expected the…
The protests against the current EU-milk policy, which have been started by dairy farmers from the western european countries like France, Germany, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg, Italie, Austria and Switzerland are now extending to eastern Europe. In a petition scores of organisations of the dairy sector have vehemently…
<link fileadmin dokumente ireland icmsa_dairy_policy_document_ploughing_2009_neu.pdf download file>Dairy Crisis and Solutions
<link fileadmin dokumente ireland icmsa_market_research_campaign_09_09_15.pdf download file>ICMSA Market Research Campaign 2009
Ireland's Prime Minister Brian Cowen (centre)
John Comer, Chairman of Mayo ICMSA, tackles Minister Smith on milk price in front of a media scrum on the second day of the Ploughing
Selon un sondage réalisé par l’Ifop pour Dimanche Ouest France du 27 septembre, les Français soutiennent massivement le mouvement des grévistes du lait. À la question «vous savez que des éleveurs laitiers font actuellement la grève du lait […] pour protester…
