Milk producers protest today in Brussels

Milk producers by the Belgian Walloon provinces of Hainaut and Namur, and from the surrounding countries of Belgium, protest today in Brussels. Main boulevards in the Belgian capital is expected to occur at least 400 tractor, which will certainly lead to massive traffic congestion in the city.
Share of milk producers was estimated to coincide with the disclosure of the European Commission report on the state of the dairy sector in the European Union. But already disclosed its sample certainly does not satisfy the protesters who will likely take new action.
Their main request is known – to be reduced quotas for milk production in the European Union, which were increased last year tend to be eliminated by 2015. Dairy farmers as this decision has caused catastrophic decline in purchase prices of raw milk, which vow to turn farm bankruptcies and closures of milk.
European Commission, however, no intention to accept their request. Mariann Fischer Boel, responsible for Agriculture and Rural Development and the European Commission will today proclaimed at noon report has said that Brussels exclude ideas as petprotsentno reduction in milk quotas or their contamination. To put the Common Agricultural Policy / European Union / questions can only create uncertainty and delay the process of restructuring, which is not of benefit to many producers of dairy products, says the document, it will present.
Meanwhile, Walloon Minister of Agriculture Byonoa Lyutzhen criticized sharply „stubbornness“ of the European Commission in respect of milk quotas. Report evidence of failure to comply fully with the dramatic situation is created, which now are farmers. Is unacceptable to the Committee persistence after row of European Union countries, among them Germany and France, wants milk quotas to be reduced or frozen, he said in a statement published on the eve of the disclosure of the report.
Today’s demonstration is added to the long series of protests by the milk producers in Belgium, France, Germany, Italy and other countries. The most spectacular among them was during the European Council in Brussels on June 20, when near the building of the Council of the European district of the Belgian capital of thousands of farmers came from several European countries and 1000 tractor. Fear of violent acts during the protest today, police believe Brussels and then to split the European institutions.

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