Dairy
Dairy farmers protest in Brussels demanding a permanent crisis instrument that prevents surpluses of milk powder on the dairy market.
The Commission is looking at how it could incentivise Article 222 in the next EU dairy package, the Commissioner for Agriculture has said.
The UFU has said that while a European dairy package could offer short-term support, it will not improve the critical situation facing local farmers.
Belgian farmers sprayed some 40,000L of milk over the building beside where today's Council of Agriculture Ministers convened today in Luxembourg.
Opinion
The dairy aid package, announced yesterday by the European Commission, should be welcomed by the industry and dairy farmers.
The first elements of the special aid package for EU farmers worth 500 million EURO, announced by the European Commission in early September, have now been adopted by the European Commission.
There is no immediate end in sight to the dairy crisis and it is a real and deep financial crisis for all dairy farmers, President of the Ulster Farmers' Union (UFU) Ian Marshall has said.
It is impossible to identify a single causative factor for the fall in world dairy prices, but the collapse has occurred as a result of multiple factors.
