European dairy farmers protesting against falling prices sprayed tons of milk powder over the EU's headquarters on Monday, as agriculture ministers held talks in the building. Dozens of farmers from Belgium, Germany, France, the Netherlands and Lithuania used a powerful spray on the back of a tractor to turn the European Council building snowy white. They were protesting against a decision by the European Commission, the executive arm of the 28-nation EU, to gradually put back on the market milk powder stocks that had been withdrawn.

Angry dairy farmers spray EU headquarters with milk powder