Bulgaria Milk Producers to Block Shipka Pass without Permission

Society | August 19, 2008, Tuesday // 00:00
Bulgaria: Bulgaria Milk Producers to Block Shipka Pass without Permission Milk producers from across Bulgaria staged numerous protests in the capital city of Sofia in the recent months. Photo by Yuliana Nikolova (Sofia Photo Agency)

More than 1,000 milk producers from across Bulgaria threatened to block Shipka pass on Thursday even without having a permission to stage a protest over their unpaid subsidies there.

"We will stay there until some of the rulers come to hold negotiations with us," explained the chairman of the Milk Producers Association in Stara Zagora, Tancho Kolev.

The protesters call on the government to provide a subsidy of BGN 0,20 per litre of milk produced, as well as EUR 140 one time financial support per animal a year.

The government decided to fulfill all their demands by allocating BGN 60 M but said that a notification from the EC is needed before the money reaches the milk producers.

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