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BY MONICA DOBIE
FRENCH wine producers are opposing their government’s anti drinking and driving campaign, with associations claiming sales in restaurants have dropped 15 per cent over fears about breaking the blood alcohol limit of 0.5g/litre. “People are so afraid of the police these days that they’re not drinking any wine at all,” said Pascal Bobillier-Monnot, director of CNAOC (Confédération Nationale des Appellations d’Origine Contrôlée), reported the Los Angeles Times.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
FRENCH wine producers are protesting against their government’s anti-drink driving campaign by launching their own campaign that calls for restaurant customers to continue drinking, while remaining fit to drive home.

Wine producer associations have said that wine sales in restaurants have recently dropped 15 per cent because people are afraid of being caught over the blood alcohol limit of 0.5g/litre, which are now being strictly enforced.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A MEAT purchase tax imposed by the French government on meat retailers is illegal under European state aid law, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled. It said that the tax, which funds the free disposal of carcasses and slaughterhouse waste, is a subsidy that places French meat producers at an unfair advantage in the European Union (EU) export market against competitors from other Member States.…

KEITH NUTHALL
A MEAT purchase tax imposed by the French government on meat retailers is illegal under European state aid law, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled. It said the tax, which funds the free disposal of carcasses and slaughterhouse waste, is a subsidy that places French meat producers at an unfair advantage in the European Union (EU) export market against competitors from other Member States.…

BY MONICA DOBIE, in Paris
FRENCH tobacconists held a one-day national strike on Monday (20-10) in protest of the recent tax hikes on tobacco products. Some 88 per cent of the country’s 34,000 state-run tobacco shops closed their doors or refused to sell cigarettes because of a recent 20 per cent price increase, the second hike this year.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE CURRENT European Commission leadership, under Italy’s Romano Prodi, was supposed to be the clean-hands team, ridding the institution of the corruption and mismanagement that thrived under his predecessor Jacques Santer. The ongoing Eurostat scandal is undermining that reputation.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
A TOBACCONIST strike in France has seen 88 per cent of the country’s 34,000 state-run tobacco shops close their doors or refused to sell cigarettes for a day (20-10) because of a recent 20 per cent price increase, the second hike this year.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
A FIERCE row over the blame for the electricity blackout which affected virtually the whole of Italy on September 28 has broken out between the Italian, Swiss and French governments, which may delay Rome’s moves towards liberalisation of its energy markets.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
WITH European Union ministers poised this autumn to choose their preferred site to host the international thermonuclear experimental reactor (ITER), an independent EU assessment of the two key EU contenders has officially concluded that both the French site Cadarache, and the Spain’s Vandellós “would be likely to win the international site selection”.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
WITH European Union ministers poised to choose their preferred site to host the international thermonuclear experimental reactor (ITER), an independent EU assessment of the two key EU contenders has officially concluded that both the French site Cadarache, and the Spain’s Vandellós “would be likely to win the international site selection”.…