The EU is planning a major shake-up of its troubled wine sector, aimed at winning back consumers and market shares lost to the "new world" wines, but some diplomats predict a fierce "battle between the EU's north and south" over the controversial reform.
Later today (4 July), EU agriculture commissioner Mariann Fischer Boel will present a reform package outlining the bleak prospects for the wine sector unless "profound" changes are introduced swiftly.
"A number of alarm bells a...
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