News conference at the end of a EU agriculture minister special lunch meeting on milk crisis at the EU council headquarters in BrusselsEuropean Union Commissioner for Agriculture , Danish Mariann Fischer Boel gives a news conference at the end of a EU agriculture minister special lunch meeting on milk crisis at the EU council headquarters in Brussels , Belgium , 05 October 2009 . Agriculture and farming ministers from across Europe are to gather in Brussels for a special meeting on what some call a crisis in dairy production . For weeks now farmers around the EU have been dumping milk stocks and withholding supplies . They are protesting against what they say are uneconomic prices for milk . There is a pretty simple problem in the European milk market : there is a lot of supply and not enough demand , and prices have fallen . EPA / OLIVIER HOSLET < 실시간 뉴스 가 당신 의 손안 으로 . . 연합뉴스 폰 > < 포토 매거진 >< 저작권자 ( c ) 연합뉴스 . 무단 전재 - 재배 포금 지 . >