EU WINE REFORM DRAWS ANGER OVER GRUBBING UP
July 1st, 2006
BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union (EU) wine makers have attacked European Commission proposals to reform the EU wine common market regime - targeting with hostility plans to increase grubbing up. All participants at a European Parliament hearing agreed the EU wine system needs change, given current over-production and poor sales. But industry participants claimed that the EU should act to increase demand, not slash production; the Commission wants to grub up 400,000 hectares of the present 3.4 million hectares of EU vineyards. Patrick Agrain, representing France ...
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