EU ANNOUNCES AID FOR WINE EXPORTS

BY KEITH NUTHALL THE EUROPEAN Commission has announced it will spend around Euro 4 million helping Cypriot, Greek and Portuguese wine producers 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 from national governments or private sources. The Association of Cypriot Wine Producers will get Euro 1.4 million of EU money over three years; Greece's National Professional Association of Vineyards and Wine (EDOAO) gets Euro ...


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