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Olive oil fiasco highlights power of the outcry

A Brussels U-turn on the use of a popular condiment has shown the extent to which political leaders are at the mercy of the people they serve

UKIP supporters claimed the high ground for their anti-European stance with yesterday’s scrapping of a bizarre EU food directive. An obscure set of agricultural management rulings had included a ban on the use of olive oil jugs in restaurants – specifically, ordering...

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