Brussels, 20/04/2011 (Agence Europe) - COPA-COGECA has welcomed the initiative taken by nine member states calling for planting rights for all kinds of wine in the European wine sector to be maintained (EUROPE 10362). EU agricultural organisations are warning that if this does not happen “there will be a serious exodus from the EU rural areas”.
Thierry Coste, president of the COPA-COGECA wine working group, explained that liberalisation of planting rights could have considerable...