Brussels, 11/07/2011 (Agence Europe) - French Agriculture Minister Bruno Le Maire wrote to his German counterpart Ilse Aigner on Monday 11 July to protest against the ban imposed on French foie gras producers exhibiting at the Cologne Food Fair from 8 to 12 October. Le Maire is threatening not to attend the opening of the ANUGA food fair held in Cologne every two years.
The decision to ban companies exhibiting foie gras from taking part in the fair “would seem to have been taken as a...