GREEK CHEESE PRODUCERS SWIM IN EU MARKETING CASH, WHILE IRISH MEAT INDUSTRY GETS SMALL CHANGE
December 1st, 2008
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE GREEK cheese industry will receive Euro 2.6 million in marketing subsidies from the European Commission over three years, while the Irish meat sector - under pressure from the dioxin crisis - receives just Euro 234,000. In Brussels' latest announcement this morning of marketing assistance to sell food outside the EU, it is releasing Euro 17.8 million. Other winners include Italian meat producers, with the lion's share of a Euro 1.9 million handout; and Bulgarian dairy producers who score around Euro 1 million.
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THE GREEK cheese industry will receive Euro 2.6 million in marketing subsidies from the European Commission over three years, while the Irish meat sector - under pressure from the dioxin crisis - receives just Euro 234,000. In Brussels' latest announcement this morning of marketing assistance to sell food outside the EU, it is releasing Euro 17.8 million. Other winners include Italian meat producers, with the lion's share of a Euro 1.9 million handout; and Bulgarian dairy producers who score around Euro 1 million.
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