date:Nov 06, 2012
a half-litre will be more like 30 euro cents, and comes at a tough time for brewers.
This is a real blow for the beer industry, he says.
Across the EU we have already seen beer production fall by 6% and consumption fall by 8% since the start of the economic crisis.
Businesses in Belgium and Germany that trade with France are likely to be worst affected, he argues, as well as smaller family firms and microbreweries that focus on quality rather than quantity, though an amendment currently being