The organisations representing farmers and agri-cooperatives in the EU, Copa-Cogeca, published a press release on Friday 26 August welcoming, as the European Milk Board (EMB) has also done, the finalisation of the detailed rules on the €500 million package designed to “improve the difficult situation facing EU agricultural producers” (EUROPE 11610).
Copa-Cogeca Secretary General Pekka Pesonen said that it was important that the schemes put in place are “workable and that money is...