FRANCE REQUESTS SUPPORT FOR PIG MEAT SECTOR
September 1st, 2009
BY EMMA JACKSON
THE FRENCH government has pressed for urgent financial support from the European Commission to offset losses in Europe's pigmeat sector, which has been struggling since the price dropped in 2007. Since then, the global recession, falling demand and growing gaps between cost and price have further damaged pigmeat profits, noted a Paris-written report for the European Union (EU) Council of Ministers. France, claiming support from other unnamed member states, wants the Commission to temporarily reintroduce export refunds, which are generally not ...
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