SECTORAL POLICIES / (ae) agriculture

Via Campesina and EMB back compulsory reduction in milk supply

Brussels, 20/07/2016 (Agence Europe) - A number of organisations representing farmers in Europe, just as some MEPs had done, expressed regret on Wednesday 20 July that the €500 million aid plan does not contain compulsory reduction in milk production (EUROPE 11597, 11596).

For the European Coordination Via Campesina (ECVC), “the lack of concrete guarantees from the EU that every country will reduce its milk production, largely undermines the implementation of solutions to the dairy...