EU ANNOUNCES AID FOR FOOD EXPORTS TO USA, JAPAN AND OTHER NON-EU MARKETS

BY KEITH NUTHALL THE EUROPEAN Commission has announced it will spend around Euro 4.7 million in helping German, Greek, Italian and Polish food producers and processors export to the USA, Canada, Japan, China, India and other big non-European Union (EU) markets. As usual in these cases, Brussels is funding 50% of planned marketing programmes, matching financing coming from nation governments or private sources. German food marketing organisation CMA Centrale Marketinggesellschaft will get Euro 528,000 of EU money over two years for its overseas sales pushes; ...


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