Piena aktivitātes Briselē

Today, December 3, farmers and non-governmental organization representatives from the Baltic States and Finland will organize protest activities in Brussels to draw the attention of the European Commission and MEPs to the critical situation in the dairy sector caused by the food embargo imposed by the Russian Federation. It is planned to distribute milk bottles to MEPs, the labels of which will indicate the solidarity of the countries and outline the situation in the dairy sector in each country.

This afternoon in Brussels, farmers from all four countries will meet with representatives of the European Commission and members of the European Parliament. During the meeting, the members will symbolically highlight the problems of the dairy industry by presenting decision-makers with milk bottles with specially made labels. The interests of Latvian dairy farmers in Brussels will be represented by Uldis Krievārs, a member of the board of the Latvian Dairy Farmers' Association, Maira Dzelzkalēja, deputy chairwoman of the association "Zemnieku saeima", Ieva Alpa-Eizenberga, owner of the agricultural cooperative "Robežnieki", and Agnese Hauka, a rural development expert of the Latvian Farmers' Federation.