'New Europe' up in arms over EU wine reform plan

Wednesday, 18 July, 2007
MediaCorp News - NewsAsia
Wine producers from new European Union members in central and eastern Europe say that EU's plans to reform the wine sector will come at their expense and could have "dramatic" implications.
But vine growers and wine producers in new EU member states worry that they will lose out under these new measures, although they say they favour reforms.

Speaking on the gentle slopes of eastern Hungary's famed Tokaj region, Laszlo Kiss, president of Hungary's National Council of Wine Communities, told AFP: "If this EU reform is passed, I think the size of the vineyards under cultivation in Hungary will be halved. It could create a dramatic situation."

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