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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9745

23 September 2008
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/agriculture
Commission agrees to special aid fund for dairy producers, but with conditions

Brussels, 22/09/2008 (Agence Europe) - On Sunday 21 September, Agriculture Commissioner Mariann Fischer Boel announced that she would agree to a new fund to provide financial aid to help dairy producers adapt to the ending of quotas in 2014, but only under certain conditions. On the sidelines of the informal meeting of European agriculture ministers, she said that “we have no new money” to set up such a fund. The money required, then, would have to come from savings made through...

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