10/09/2002 (Agence Europe) - Coldiretti has strongly reacted to information that the European Commission is planning to discuss harmonising alcohol duty on Wednesday with a view to scrapping the zero duty on wine (see Europe of 7 September, p.8). Such a measure would be a dangerous mistake, argues Coldiretti, since it would hinder the development of one of the most dynamic and traditional parts of EU agriculture since the introduction of duty on wine could provide explicit encouragement to...