EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT PUSHES FOR WATERED DOWN EU WINE REFORM
February 1st, 2007
BY KEITH NUTHALLTHE EUROPEAN Parliament's agriculture committee is resisting European Commission attempts to overhaul the European Union's (EU) wine market system, notably calling for the retention of compulsory distillation to ease over-production. It has adopted a report written by Greek socialist MEP Katerina Batzeli, who while arguing that the "public storage of alcohol should be abolished," calls for the retention, even expansion, of market-distorting subsidies helping vineyards survive and avoid grubbing up. Indeed the report "rejects the immediate ...
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