EU - Being in line with the flu epidemic, the European pig slaughter market is in a huff. A market observer in Great Britain describes his view of the situation as follows: Watching Germany sneeze, Europe starts shaking.Saying so, he speaks about the German slaughter companies seeming like a nightmare to all others, them paying extensive discounted prices by which pressure was exerted on the market last week to an extent making the German quotation going down by 7 cents. As a consequence the whole European market started shaking, with all quotations going down but for the French.The price decreases are ranking from 1.9 cents as noted in the Netherlands up to the 7 cents’ peak noted in Germany. The Dutch quotation went down gradually over the past weeks, thus still ranking behind Germany and last among the five EU member countries most significant in pig keeping.

　　由于季节流行流感疫情，欧洲生猪屠宰市场看起来尤其气恼。英国一名市场监测员描述他对这个市场形势的看法：看着德国打喷嚏，欧洲市场在摇晃。他谈到，德国屠宰公司从表面看士翠他屠宰公司的噩梦，由于上周市场施加一定程度的压力，使得德国报价持续下跌，降了7美分。德国屠宰公司用大量折扣价格进行支付。因此，整个欧洲屠宰市场开始动摇，除了法国，其他国家报价都在下降。价格下降排名从德国减少最多的7美分到荷兰的1.9美分。荷兰报价在过去几周内逐渐下跌，因此下跌排名在德国之后。荷兰依然是欧盟五大养猪成员国之末。