EU WINE REFORM COMMUNICATON PUBLCATION – FISCHER BOEL
May 1st, 2006
BY ALAN OSBORN
THE BROAD shape of the wine reform plan to be presented by the European Commission in June has become clearer following remarks by the European Union (EU) agriculture commissioner Mariann Fischer Boel in Spain this week (May 4). She reassured producers for the first time that Brussels will not propose any cut in the Euro 1.2-1.3 billion a year budget for subsidising wine production in an effort to cut back chronic surplus over-production in the EU. Rather it would argue for "more intelligent use" of the money, she said. The agriculture ...
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