Producers are not allowed to sell their fruit-based alcoholic drink as "wine". An award-winning winery in Kent has been banned from calling one of its products "wine" because of EU rules.

One million three hundred thousand euros. This is the amount allocated by the European Union to build accomodation facilities in the province of Vibo Valentia, in order to promote the tourism potential of Calabria. Indeed, with the collaboration of two complacent regional officials, the huge sum was used for the renovation of private homes and expensive wedding gifts to friends and relatives.

A draft resolution co-signed by several Groups in the EP including the EFD Group and adopted by the Committee on the Environment and Public Health (ENVI) enumerates suggestions after PIP scandal. MEPs call for a marketing authorisation request for dangerous medical devices, use of mandatory unannounced inspections, enhanced controls of notified bodies and additional sample testing on products already on the market.

Mr Lorenzo Fontana MEP was elected Vice-president of the committee on culture and education. "I am particularly happy that I was assigned this position - declares Fontana - which is even more difficult to reach if we consider that my EFD group is in a minority position in the European Parliament."