COMMISSION REFUSES TO DROP LIBERALISATION OF FRUIT AND VEGETABLE STANDARDS
June 1st, 2008
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission is refusing to accept defeat in a long political struggle with southern European governments over plans to scrap restrictive fruit and vegetable marketing standards. A spokesman for European Union (EU) agriculture Commissioner Mariann Fischer Boel said she "is determined this should go ahead and is surprised by such strong resistance to such a practical example of simplification." Long the butt of anti-EU ridicule in the UK, these rules have imposed limits on the curviness of cucumbers or courgettes, and the ...
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