Euro milk protest gets heated – answers
questions
- How are the protests in Bruxelles described? as noisy scenes
- What verb describes the action of the farmers outside the European Council? converge
- What were thrown? firecrackers
- Name two countries that are represented by their farmers. Germany, France (poss. Italy Belgium)
- What will be debated here? the regulations for the dairy market
- What are the farmers asking for? quotas
- Why? because of over-production
- Why are many dairy farmers facing bankruptcy? because of low prices for their produce
- What is the ratio between production costs and market prices? 2:1 production costs are twice that of market prices
- What do the farmers expect the EU to do to the quota system? tighten it up
- What is the current EU plan? to end it by 2015
- How does the EU view the situation? as a case of finding the right balance between producers and the dairy industry
- When will the quotas go? by the end of March 2015
- What do farmers want to create? a monitoring agency
- Who are described as actors in the market? farmers, consumers and politicians