FARMERS brought a Friesian cow to the steps of the European Commission offices in Dublin yesterday to highlight their anger at the prices they are being paid for milk supplies.

EXPORT refunds for pigmeat, reopened by the European Commission last November to tackle difficulties in the sector caused by high feed costs and sluggish market prices, must be maintained for as long as possible.

IT will be more important than ever in the years ahead to have policies which meet the needs of rural areas as a whole, according to European Union Agriculture and Rural Development Commissioner Mariann Fischer Boel.

EU AGRICULTURE and Rural Development Commissioner Mariann Fischer Boel has begun blogging to communicate directly with people across the member states.

THE European Commission is in the final stages of preparing a Renewable Energy roadmap, which will include a progress report on the Biofuels Directive.

THE EU cannot duck the challenge of competitiveness, Agriculture and Rural Development Commissioner Mariann Fischer Boel told the European Farmers Congress in Strasbourg yesterday.