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SHOTLIST Brussels, Belgium 1. Tractors driving towards European Union (EU) headquarters, escorted by police 2. Front shot of tractors making their way to EU headquarters 3. Dairy farmers gathered at Brussels north station ahead of march to EU headquarters, cow in colours of EU flag, text reads "The fair milk" 4. Tilt down from sign reading (German): "Farmers need a fair price; 40 cents per litre and never less than that," to dairy farmer 5. SOUNDBITE (German) Franz Chitta, Dairy Farmer: "The price is too low, it's so low that we can't subsist on it and so the people have to pay a right for it." 6. French dairy farmers holding up a small scale cow in French flag colours 7. Close up of small scale flag in French flag colours, text reads (in French) "sustainable milk" 8. SOUNDBITE (French) Eddie Chinon, Dairy Farmer from France: "We are gathered here today to demand a fair price for our milk, which covers at least our production cost and some profit margin. And we are here to say that we have to regulate milk production according to level of consumption so that there is no excessive milk production nor too little but just right." 9. Pan of dairy farmers gathered 10. Tilt up from large cow bell to German farmers 11. Farmer holding up sign reading (in French) "Milk at 40 cents or strike" 12. Large scale cow in French flag colours text reading (in French) "Sustainable milk" 13. Wide of dairy farmers protest 14. Various of live cows near EU headquarters 15. Tractors arriving at EU headquarters Berlin, Germany 16. Various of demonstration, protesters holding flags, posters 17. Close up sign reading (in German) "Enjoy meat at a fair price." 18. Pan of protesters 19. Protester blowing whistle 20. Mid protesters 21. Close up of sign reading (in German) "We have to get rid of the disadvantage of agricultural fuel NOW!" 22. SOUNDBITE (German) Hans Henning Buchholz, Farmer from Lehrte near Hannover: "Our demands are that the fuel taxes have to be reduced. The milk prices need to be increased and the costs for fertiliser have to come down. We have a situation right now where one thinks about shutting down the business." 23. Banner reading (in German) "We want to live too" STORYLINE Farmers in Brussels and Berlin held protests on Monday against a drop in milk prices. More than 1,000 farmers were protesting outside the European Union headquarters in Brussels, while other demonstrators have blocked milk processing plants in France. The farmers say they have been forced to sell milk at below production costs because prices have fallen up to 50 percent over the past year. The EU said it was intervening with support measures as much as it could to boost the market. EU farm ministers are expected to meet later on Monday and are expected to discuss ways to help the dairy farmers. France and Germany have promised to coordinate support action. Farmers in Germany demonstrated too, even as the German government responded to weeks' long protest by the nation's dairy producers on Monday by lowering the tax on diesel for agricultural purposes. The government said it was trying to ease what they called a "difficult situation" in the sector. Under the new regulation, farmers will only have to pay 25 euro cents per litre of fuel, as compared with 40 euro cents, which officials estimate will amount to an average annual savings of 285 million (m) euros (398 million (m) US dollars) per farm. "With this regulation, we are helping to ensure the existence of farms in the agricultural sector and provide for the welfare of our farmers," the parliamentary leaders of the Christian Democratic Union, Voker Kauder, and Social Democrats, Peter Struck, said in a statement. You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/802a7a877a13e9559acf74f00d96e861 Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork