The European dairy industry is losing its share of the world dairy market because of mismanagement by the European Commission. This charge has been levelled by the Danish dairy Board (DDB) executive director, Preben Mikkelsen, who told a European dairy industry conference that the Commission’s handling of the dairy export subsidy system had undermined the position of exporters in key world markets and brought about a serious loss of competitiveness for EU dairy exports.
Mikkelsen alleged that the Commission had gone