Cut supplies to increase milk prices

The conservative daily Lidové Noviny comments on the EU's plans to help dairy farmers by funding their advertising campaigns: "Once again Brussels has hatched a great plan for wasting taxpayers' money on individual groups. This time the dairy farmers are to receive more state aid. The agricultural ministers have decided to support advertising for dairy products, even though the Union is already intervening on the dairy market. … It's a fact that even tripling milk subsidies wouldn't save the farmers. US farmers took a different approach. They capped the supply to boost milk prices. This is the only sensible solution in addition to further refining dairy products."

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