Brussels, 14/06/2011 (Agence Europe) - France is currently recovering some of the state aid paid out to French fruit and vegetable producers between 1992 and 2002 that has been deemed illegal and the European Commission confirmed on Tuesday 14 June that the bill will be lighter.
The affair is an old one. At the start of the 1990s, fruit and vegetable producers in France were experiencing financial difficulties. To help them, the French state granted them exceptional aid for the storage,...