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"en.20051213.64.2-429"2
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Madam President, the changes to the sugar regime will achieve the double whammy of destroying the livelihood of sugar producers in Member States and in the developing world. According to
in the UK, next season, British sugar beet growers will start facing deep price cuts and the possibility of factory closures.
One of the ACP countries, St Kitts and Nevis, has already stopped sugar production and it will not be an isolated case. The chairman of the ACP Sugar Group, Mr Arvin Boollel, has said that, following the EU decision, it is very likely that we are all going to suffer from the St Kitts and Nevis situation. He said: ‘We have been shot in the legs and asked to run the marathon’. His country knows all about being shafted by the EU. He is the Agriculture Minister of Mauritius, one of the many developing nations subject to the EU’s scandalous fishing agreements.
Only EUR 40 million is on the table. The ACP countries call it peanuts. The Jamaican Foreign Minister, Mr Knight, described it as a miserly approach, a very evocative and relevant thing to say at this time of year. It will not be a sweet Christmas for sugar producers, be they in East Anglia or East Africa. They all know that if the EU and its Scrooges are the answer, it must have been a stupid question."@en1
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"Farmers Weekly"1
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