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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9967
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) ep/agriculture

MEPs urge Fischer Boel to accept emergency measures for milk producers

Brussels, 01/09/2009 (Agence Europe) - On Tuesday 1 September, the overwhelming majority of MEPs on the European Parliament's agriculture committee urged Mariann Fischer Boel to agree to take emergency measures to help milk and milk product producers overcome the current crisis. The commissioner for agriculture, however, refused to yield to these appeals for lowering production quotas or change course on the end of quotas programmed for 2015. According to the European Commission, budgetary...

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