ECJ CHIQUITA BRANDS

BY KEITH NUTHALL
CHIQUITA Brands, the American fruit company behind the US-led assault on Europe's protection of fragile Caribbean banana producers, has lost a bid for damages against the European Commission for standing in its way. The European Court of Justice (ECJ) threw out Chiquita's case.



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