Brussels, 19/12/2012 (Agence Europe) - As has often been the case, the countries of the EU stood divided, on Wednesday 19 December, over the future of milk production quotas, which are due to be removed at the end of 2015.
At the Council, Ireland, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Denmark, Austria and Latvia spoke in favour of raising dairy quotas at the end of the period to avoid superlevies (fines in the event of exceeding production quotas).
Eight countries (Spain, France, Poland, Finland,...