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...have been pouring taxpayers' money into distillation schemes [to convert unsold wine to industrial alcohol] while New World wine-producers have been running rings round us," E.U. Agriculture Commissioner Mariann Fischer Boel said last week. "Clearly, we must take a different approach to helping Europe's excellent wines punch their weight around the world more consistently...
...This change to the 40-year-old sugar policy was widely anticipated after the World Trade Organization last year decided that the E.U. was infringing international trade rules by giving subsidies to its sugar exporters that distort the world market. But the cuts announced by E.U. Commissioner Mariann Fischer Boel were deeper than expected, and prompted a sour reaction from Europe's sugar industry, which accounts for 13% of world production. Shares in Britain's Tate & Lyle tumbled after it warned that profits could be reduced by more than $150 million over the next two years. Other losers...
...szlo Kovács, whose "professional competence" and "aptitude" were found inadequate by the relevant committee; the proposed Commissioner for Competition, Neelie Kroes of the Netherlands, whose extensive (and, until recently, not fully disclosed) business ties have come under fire; the Danish nominee for Agriculture Commissioner, Mariann Fischer Boel, who was called "lacking in resoluteness" by the relevant committee; and Latvian Taxation Commissioner-designate Ingrida Udre, who Schulz said "doesn't belong in the Commission" because of an ongoing corruption probe into her party, the Union of Greens and Farmers. (Her candidacy was made even shakier on Thursday...
...defense was Boston's strong point last year and it seems better than ever with the return of iron man Alan Wooler of West Ham, Danish and Scottish leagues star Henning Boel, and player-assistant coach Paddy Greenwood, a member of the championship team of two years...
Giovanni Agnelli, Fiat; Giuseppe Bertola, Brown, Boveri & Co.; Count Rene Paul Boel, Solvay et Cie.; Willard C. Butcher, Chase Manhattan Corp.; Louis Camu, Banque de Bruxelles; Alain Chevalier, Moet-Hennessy; Dr. F. Wilhelm Christians, Deutsche Bank; Fernand Josef Collin, Kredietbank, N.V.; Dr. Paul Dax, Siemens; Sir Eric Drake, British Petroleum; Baron Edouard-Jean Empain, Electrorail; Nils Foss, F.L. Smidth & Co.; Pehr G. Gyllenhammar, Volvo; Alfred H. Heineken, Heineken, N.V.; Belton K. Johnson, King Ranch; Dr. Konrad...