Brief

Wine and Europe: What Model for the Old World?

After the Commission’s publication on 4 July of its proposal for reform of the Wine Common Market Organisations, Notre Europe joins the debate which has been animating the European wine growing community for more than a year. This policy brief reminds us that beyond the economic issues, what is at stake in this reform is the future of a model which values the specificities of European wine-growing in an ultra-competitive global context.

After the Commission’s publication on 4 July of its proposal for reform of the Wine Common Market Organisations, Notre Europe joins the debate which has been animating the European wine growing community for more than a year. This policy brief reminds us that beyond the economic issues, what is at stake in this reform is the future of a model which values the specificities of European wine-growing in an ultra-competitive global context.