Yep, it's very easy and cheap to produce alcohol, the only reason it's expensive now is due to countries adding high excise taxes and the like to alcoholic drinks
The EU-Israel Association treaty is expiring, it needs to be renewed to remain active.
Renewing requires an unanimous vote in the European Council, which the Dutch Minister says he will block until the review is complete. The review will be conducted by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands, not by the EC.
However I should note that this government coalition is a very staunch defender of Israel, so this minister deviating from basically unconditional support to Israel might triggger a cabinet crisis, so at this point it's hard to tell whether this block will stay in place until the review is complete.
The Doctor: Who's she? Kazran Sardick: Nobody important. The Doctor: Nobody important? Blimey, that's amazing. You know that in nine hundred years of time and space and I've never met anybody who wasn't important before.
Or even better: a pet duck