FRENCH GOVERNMENT WARNS OF EUROPEAN BEEF MARKET DISRUPTION THROUGH DROUGHT
June 1st, 2011
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE FRENCH government has asked the European Commission to prepare to help its beef sector, hit by prolonged drought. In a note to the European Union (EU) Council of Ministers last week (June 6), Paris warned French farmers were rushing to sell livestock early, and "if these trends continue, or indeed increase, this could seriously destabilise the European market." In this case, the French government requested that the Commission devise "the necessary response...by introducing appropriate market measures."
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