The major wine-growing countries of Italy, France and Spain are currently mobilizing against the warning images on wine bottles that have now been introduced in Ireland. Local winegrowers are also demanding continued political protest!
Drink at your own risk, but with a warning – that’s the current trend in Ireland.
Resistance to Irish Way
After Irish Health Minister Stephen Donnelly signed the order for labels such as those on tobacco products – impressive warnings about the liver and cancer risks of wine, beer and spirits will be widely affixed in the future – Italy’s Agriculture Minister Francesco Lollobrigida took to the barricades first, stating that the dramatic nature of the situation could disrupt the market, which he says is against EU law.
Local winegrowers want to deploy the heavy artillery
A hefty protest note is about to be drawn up, and the great wine-growing countries of France and Spain joined without hesitation. In Austria, however, people are again opting for the more comfortable path and waiting at the political level. However, the Irish way also bothers our winegrowers sour, and so they plan to bring out the heavy artillery.
‘Is against the idea of a free internal market within the EU’
In any case, the winegrowers’ association firmly rejects the new warnings on alcoholic products: “It is absolutely contrary to the idea of a free internal market within the European Union,” explains chairman Johannes Schmuckenschlager. He now also calls on the red-white-red Minister of Agriculture Norbert Totschnig (also ÖVP) to follow the example of his Italian colleague and also to speak out resolutely against the labeling madness. It is said that this madness must clearly be fought. To date, however, no response has been received.
Legislative amendment strengthens local quality wines
Recently, however, an important success has already been achieved. The amendment to the local wine law was adopted in the Council of Ministers. This will further enhance the expansion of local origin and quality wines, digitize the reporting system in the wine sector and create bureaucratic relief for the companies, according to the tenor of the sector. After all, 11,000 winegrowers work with the most modern sales channels and need a modern law: “The digitization of the registration system reduces bureaucracy. This allows our winegrowers to dedicate themselves even more to their passion – the production of characteristic quality wine,” continues Schmuckenschlager.
So as long as no European trend emerges from the Irish advance, the winegrowers in this country can continue to work in peace.
Source: Krone
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