EU Commissioner for Agriculture Mariann Fischer Boel (L) welcomes Polish Agriculture Minister Marek Sawicki on October 19, 2009 ahead of an Agriculture and Fisheries Council meeting at the EU headquarters in Luxembourg. Boel announced today that she would release 280 million euros (418 million dollars) in aid for Europe's ailing dairy farmers. Getty Images logo Getty Images 1 month ago

EU Commissioner for Agriculture Mariann Fischer Boel (L) welcomes Polish Agriculture Minister Marek Sawicki on October 19, 2009 ahead of an Agriculture and Fisheries Council meeting at the EU headquarters in Luxembourg. Boel announced today that she would release 280 million euros (418 million dollars) in aid for Europe's ailing dairy farmers.

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  1. Retired army officers Ion Mares (R) and Ion Tecu take part in an interview with Reuters TV, in the room where Romania's late Stalinist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife Elena were judged 20 years ago on Christmas day, in a former military facility in Targoviste, 75 km (47 miles) northwest of Bucharest December 9, 2009. More than 1,000 Romanians were killed across Romania during clashes between demonstrators and Ceausescu's security forces, in what amounted to eastern Europe's most violent anti-communist revolution.
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  3. PARIS - DECEMBER 3: Lily Saran and Nancy Chopard-Sain attend the gala dinner to benefit ADICARE, hosted by Professor Christian Cabrol at Hotel de Lassay on December 3, 2009 in Paris, France. In 1968, Professor Cabrol was the first doctor to do a heart transplant in Europe.
  4. BERLIN - DECEMBER 03: A minaret stands illuminated over the Sehitlik Mosque on December 3, 2009 in Berlin, Germany. The recent referendum in Switzerland, in which 57 percent of respondents voted for a ban on the construction of minarets, has sparked a debate across Europe over attitudes toward Islam and the fear of radical Islam.
  5. HAMBURG, GERMANY - DECEMBER 02: English singer-songwriter Paul McCartney performs live during a concert at the Color Line Arena on December 2, 2009 in Hamburg, Germany. The concert is the tour start of his 'Good Evening Europe Tour 2009'.

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  1. Denmark's EU Commissioner Mariann Fischer Boel (L) talks with Spanish Minister of Agriculture Elena Espinosa on October 5, 2009 prior to a working lunch of EU agriculture ministers over the stricken dairy sector at EU headquarters in Brussels. Farmers hurled eggs at European Union headquarters today as tractors brought Brussels traffic to a halt outside the crisis meeting of EU farm ministers.
  2. Denmark's EU Commissioner Mariann Fischer Boel (L) answers journalists' questions on October 5, 2009 prior to a working lunch of EU agriculture ministers over the stricken dairy sector at EU headquarters in Brussels. Farmers hurled eggs at European Union headquarters today as tractors brought Brussels traffic to a halt outside the crisis meeting of EU farm ministers.
  3. European Commissioner for Agriculture and Rural Development Mariann Fischer Boel arrives for an extraordinary European Union farm ministers meeting in Brussels October 5, 2009. EU agriculture ministers meet on Monday to tackle a crisis in the dairy sector, where they will assess proposals for short term market intervention as well as regulation for the long term.
  4. EU Agriculture and Rural Development Commissioner Mariann Fischer Boel (C) tastes fruit with italian boy Roselino Cannio (R) from Centuripe after a media conference on September 28, 2009 annoncing the launch of an EU campaing aimed at young people's health at the EU headquarter in Brussels.
  5. European Commissioner for Agriculture and Rural Development Mariann Fischer Boel (L) launches the EU Healthy Eating Campaign, an initiative to fight against child obesity, during a news conference at the EU Commission headquarters in Brussels, September 28, 2009.
  6. EU agriculture commissioner Mariann Fischer Boel talks to journalists on October 19, 2009 before the start of an EU Agriculture and Fisheries Council meeting at EU headquarters in Luxembourg. Fischer Boel announced on October 19 that she would release 280 million euros (418 million US dollars) in aid for Europe's ailing dairy farmers.
  7. EU agriculture commissioner Mariann Fischer Boel talks to journalists on October 19, 2009 before the start of an EU Agriculture and Fisheries Council meeting at EU headquarters in Luxembourg. Fischer Boel announced on October 19 that she would release 280 million euros (418 million US dollars) in aid for Europe's ailing dairy farmers.
  8. EU Commissioner for Agriculture Mariann Fischer Boel gestures while speaking during a media conference at the EU Council building in Brussels, Monday Oct. 5, 2009. Dairy farmers drove hundreds of tractors into the center of Belgium's capital on Monday in the hope of pushing an emergency meeting of farm ministers into backing more funds to survive the milk price crisis. Despite the action, the chairman of the emergency meeting said any new action would take at least two more weeks to be approved.
  9. EU Commissioner for Agriculture Mariann Fischer Boel (L) welcomes Polish Agriculture Minister Marek Sawicki on October 19, 2009 ahead of an Agriculture and Fisheries Council meeting at the EU headquarters in Luxembourg. Boel announced today that she would release 280 million euros (418 million dollars) in aid for Europe's ailing dairy farmers.

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