Taormina, 22/09/2003 (Agence Europe) - Proposing aid decoupling in the tobacco sector and a plan to restructure the sector, the European Commission hopes to programme the end of aid to tobacco producers (see details of the proposal in EUROPE of 16 September 2003, p.12), Community sources say. On the fringe of the informal meeting of EU Farm Ministers in Taormina (in Sicily), the Italian President-in-Office of the Council, Giovanni Alemanno, reacted strongly to the strategy presented in Franz...