EU: Commission ponders halving vine grubbing up

By Sophie Kevany | 3 May 2007

A possible reduction in the EU's grubbing up target of 400,000 hectares of vines, to 200,000, has been suggested by European Commissioner Mariann Fischer Boel.

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A possible reduction in the EU's grubbing up target of 400,000 hectares of vines, to 200,000, has been suggested by European Commissioner Mariann Fischer Boel.