(Europolitics) - Slovenia has become the fourteenth EU member state to voice opposition against the liberalisation of vine planting rights, scheduled to begin from 2016, claiming that maintaining the current system “is the right way to balance EU wine production”. In a letter to Jean-Paul Bachy, president of AREV (the Regional Assembly of European Wine Regions), on February 6, the Director-General of Slovenia’s Ministry for Agriculture, Branko Ravnik, said that his country had joined the opposition group at the Agriculture Council, on January 23 (1)