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Article: Price-fixing shame of EU
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- Western Daily Press (Bristol UK)
- Article date:
- September 27, 2007
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The likes of Asda, Morrisons, Safeway and co are accused of
getting together to rig the cost of groceries "Supermarkets in
pounds270m price fix"(Western Daily Press, September 21), and people
go ape.
Yet for years, Brussels has operated the same policy of keeping
the price of a range of foodstuffs artificially high (and still is
doing), so where are the headlines complaining about that?
The EU, don't forget, is the outfit whose own auditors have
refused to sign off the accounts for more than the past decade.
Remember the wine lakes and butter mountains of yore? Well,
they're still there, and they've been joined by warehouses full of
apples, grain, you ...