butter mountain

Have you contributed a great deal this year to the butter mountain?

Butter mountains, wine lakes and school programmes are not the way forward, however.

Europe has had its butter mountain and wine lake.

For years, they have been ridiculed about milk lakes and butter mountains.

Europe should be a premium producer—creating butter mountains is disastrous for that brand image.

I suspect that their croissants were the solution to those European butter mountains we used to hear about.

In Europe, subsidies to maintain the "butter mountain" have become so expensive that taxpayers are becoming restless.

We're paying for European butter mountains and wine lakes.'

They cluckclucked over butter mountains here versus starvation there, and supplied their own recipes.

Butter mountains loom above lakes of olive oil.

Europe threw money at farmers to stimulate production but it worked too well, producing "milk lakes" and "butter mountains".

He said: "We've heard of the butter mountain, I think they must have a bag mountain somewhere.

This helped to prevent a price slump but it also led to 'butter mountains' and 'wine lakes'which were expensive to store.

Over-production led to the infamous butter mountains and ultimately set aside, which means that arable farmers here can only work 85% of their land.

In the 1980s, the Commission in Brussels told us that there were milk lakes and butter mountains.

He could barely cross the Members' Lobby without a correspondent trying to solicit his views on everything from butter mountains to rape.

THE European Union has known its share of surpluses: wine lakes, butter mountains and so on.

But the world has changed - the silos bursting with unsold grain and the butter mountains that so embarrassed the Eurocrats have gone.

Quotas were introduced in 1984 to tackle the then notorious butter mountains and milk lakes created by over-production and to support prices.

In March, the Commission also started buying up butter and skimmed milk, raising the specter of new butter mountains.

I myself thought that we had got rid of the ice when we reformed the common agricultural policy, once we no longer had butter mountains.

The policy's price controls and market interventions led to considerable overproduction, resulting in so-called 'butter mountains' and 'wine lakes'.

Of course I remember the time of the milk lakes and the butter mountains, and I do not want to go back to that.

That same year, the agriculture commissioner for the Common Market revealed a new solution for reducing the butter mountain: feeding it back to the cows.

We saw this with the butter mountain, we see it with the milk lakes, and now we have the same problem with beef.