01/09/2006 (Agence Europe) - In an interview in Portuguese newspaper Jornal de Noticias on 1 September in which she defended her plans to reform the EU's wine industry (grubbing up some 400,000 hectares of vineyards in five years and scrapping market management measures), EU Agriculture Commissioner Mariann Fischer Boel said that continuing to use taxpayers' money to destroy wine was inconceivable. She said that requests to distil wine in the EU were of the order of six to seven hectolitres...