EU MINISTERS TELL COMMISSION TO OFFER ADDITIONAL HELP TO HARD-PRESSED PIGMEAT PRODUCERS
March 1st, 2016
EUROPEAN Union (EU) ministers have told the European Commission to devise detailed assistance measures to help European pigmeat producers, following a debate at the EU Council of Ministers for agriculture yesterday (March 14).
A communiqué said that the Council and Commission had agreed to “take decisive actions without delay” building on the EUR500 million aid package for farmers approved last September (2015). Pigmeat and dairy are the two segments suffering the mot at present, ministers agreed, with the meat sector’s plight worsened by Russia’s ...
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