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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9916

9 June 2009
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/agriculture
Commission gives up on plans to authorise rosé production by blending

Brussels, 08/06/2009 (Agence Europe) - On Monday 8 June, the day after the results of the European Parliamentary elections were revealed, European Agriculture and Rural Development Commissioner Mariann Fischer Boel made the surprise, but welcome, announcement that she was giving up on trying to get a proposal passed that would have lifted the ban on blending red and white wines to produce rosé. French and Italian producers in particular were hostile to this, now abandoned, proposal to allow...

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