EU FARM MINISTER PLEADS FOR REFORM

European wine-producers are still having a hard time agreeing on reform. The EU’s Farm Commissioner Mariann Fischer Boel stresses the need for European winemakers to simplify labels and produce more desirable wines if they ever want to recover world market share, but many in the industry are having trouble making changes. The main problems for EU wineries seems to be their determination to stick with tradition, despite losing out to newer wine countries, like Australia and South Africa, who have