FISCHER BOEL FLEXIBLE ON WINE REFORM
September 1st, 2006
BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union (EU) agriculture Commissioner Mariann Fischer Boel has underlined her willingness to be flexible over the final shape of the EU's proposed wine reforms, as long as their core liberalisation proposals are preserved.
In a speech to the agriculture committee of the European Parliament, she stressed that additional money would be transferred to EU rural development budgets and earmarked for wine producing regions, to help cushion restructuring blows. The cash would be spent on "early retirement, environmental, quality ...
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