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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9539
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/agriculture

Commission says fruit wines are safe

Brussels, 08/11/2007 (Agence Europe) - Following a meeting on 5 November with the German agriculture minister, Horst Seehofer, the European Commission is reported to have given guarantees that there is no danger of not being allowed to use the name 'wine' for alcoholic beverages made from fruit. Since the October Agriculture Council, Germany and other member states have been concerned about the initial reform plans for the EU's wine industry, which defined 'wine' only as a product made from...

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