Summary of newsmakers of the previous day – 27.5.2008

Milk production in Europe is not any longer enough

The future of milk quotas determining milk production in countries of the European Union already since 1984 is one of the most ticklish questions at the present. We should have known an answer to them already before this year end, so after termination of a health inspection of the EU Common Agricultural Policy. Ing. Stanislav Jas from the Ministry of Agriculture CR spoke about these problems at a member meeting in Větrný Jeníkov. Milk quotas beyond question contributed in that overproduction disappeared from European milk product market. Nevertheless, owing to them the situation is not as favourable as it was planned.

Czechs buy foods in Germany

Times when park places at supermarkets in a borderland were full of cars with German license plates are already a long ago away. During the last year food prices in Czech and German shops turned and vice versa the Czech start to go out for cheaper food in Germany. “At least a half, maybe sixty percent of self-employed from Železná Ruda go shopping in Germany because goods are cheaper there. It pays off even in spite of a price of way is included”, a director of hotels Horizont and Špičák Jaroslav Fišer said.

Ministers of France, the Czech Republic and Sweden harmonized priorities in agricultural sector

Priorities of eighteen-month coordinated presidency in the EU Council were discussed by heads of delegation from France, the Czech Republic and Sweden at an informal negotiation of the Council of Ministers of Agriculture in Slovenian Brd. Among such priorities there is Health Check, of course, further e.g. so called Green Paper solving a policy of quality, redefinition of co called less favourable areas, forest parcel, and aid to the poorest areas. Ministers Barnier, Gandalovič and Erlandsson introduced mutually areas in which in frame of the presidency they want to put the biggest effort.

The biggest ecological problem in forest? A lot of game

A forest under Medvědí mountain in Jeseníky reminds ZOO. A rowan tree, a goat willow, and a birch tree grow behind a high fence there. Without it the trees would never grow in several-meter height. Deer or roes would eat up them. “When there is not the fence, broad-leaved trees will not have many chances”, confirms Jiří Silvestr, a director of regional workplace of the state enterprise Lesy. Outbroken deer, mouflons and roes become the main brake for growing a health, natural forest in the country again. High numbers of game become an ecological problem one in our forests”, Jaromír Bláha from the ecological Movement Rainbow (Hnutí Duha) says.