"The alliance between Italy, France and Spain is essential and considerable, representing collectively approximately one bottle out of two (47%) produced in the globe". This is what the president of COLDIRETTI, Ettore Prandini, says about the idea of Minister of Agricultural Policies Lollobrigida for a common document of the major producing countries to stop the unfairly alarmist labels on wine that don't consider the amount consumed, after the EU gave the green light to Ireland. It is a hazardous precedent that, according to COLDIRETTI, threatens opening the door to a community law that would jeopardize the supply chain with Italy, the world's largest producer and exporter with a turnover of over $14 billion in a sector that guarantees 1.3 million employments from field to table. The Commission's approval comes after repeated efforts at the EU level to penalize the industry and an attempt to remove it from European promotion money in An ideological approach to a product such as wine, which is an integral element of the Mediterranean diet, has a history of ten thousand years, and whose traces in the globe have been discovered in the Caucasus, while in Italy, there are findings dating back to 4000 B.C. in Sicily. It is a question of safeguarding a Made in Italy sector that has long chosen the road of quality with Made in Italy bottles intended for about 70% to DOC, DOCG and IGT with 332 wines with controlled designation of origin, 76 wines with controlled and guaranteed designation of origin, and 118 wines with typical geographical indication (IGT) recognized in Italy, and the remaining 30% for table wines.
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