Ireland’s plan to put cancer warnings on all bottles of alcohol, including wine is not going down well with Italians. The Italian Farmers’ Association has called the the plan a “direct attack” on Italy while the country’s foreign minister says the European Commission needs to intervene and put a stop to it. Italian winegrowers fear where Ireland goes, the rest of the European Union may follow. The World’s Europe correspondent Orla Barry reports.
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