FRANCE REPAYMENTS
May 1st, 2003
BY ALAN OSBORNFRANCE has been order to pay back Euro 23.15 million of EU expenditure onwine, which the European Commission says has been "misspent." An Brussels winespokesman said France had granted aid for "ineligible rectified concentrated must prepared from grape must produced in the Charentes region" which had been used to enrich certain wine products. Separately, the Commission said, France had provided aid for the production of raw alcohol to producers of spirits distilled from grape marc. In both cases the payments contravened EU legislation covering the ...
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