SPAIN AND GREECE GET EU CRISIS DISTILLATION CASH
June 1st, 2006
STORIES BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union (EU) agriculture Commissioner Mariann Fischer Boel has attacked another decision by the EU's Wine Management Committee to fund vast amounts of crisis distillation for unsold European wine - this time in Spain and Greece. The committee has approved distilling up to 300,000 hectolitres of Spanish quality wine; 370,000 hl of Greek table wine; and 130,000 hl of Greek quality wine: total cost - Euro 22.2 million. Said a dismayed Fischer Boel: "Once again we are spending large amounts of money on getting rid of surplus ...
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