Brussels, 06/06/2006 (Agence Europe) - On Wednesday 7 June, the management committee is expected to take a stance regarding the French and Italian requests to open a “crisis distillation” mechanism allowing surplus wine “lakes” to be used. Spain and Greece have also asked for such a measure but the European Commission needs more time to examine them.
France is requesting Community subsidies for the distillation of a total volume of 4 million hectolitres (hl) of wine: 2 million hl of...