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The Lehideux report is a catalogue of good intentions with no concrete results, apart from EUR 40 million of financial support in 2006.
The 18 ACP countries, signatories to the Sugar Protocol, export 1.6 million tonnes of cane sugar a year to the European Union at the EU price. The Council’s decision to reduce the price of sugar by 36% over four years will result in an equivalent reduction in their export earnings.
The WTO is dealing a harsh blow to countries as poor as Swaziland and Malawi by forcing the European Union to reform its sugar sector on the basis of a complaint by Brazil.
As the ACP countries have quite rightly said, the reform is too fast and too extensive.
In reality, the only winner will be Brazil, the top worldwide exporter of cane sugar, which will take advantage of this situation to increase its share of the export market to the detriment of the ACP countries.
At a time when the WTO is discussing the development round, this is a very poor example for the European Union to give to Africa, even if the ‘everything but arms’ initiative is an attempt to disguise our divisions and our egotism.
This reform of the sugar regime will increase their poverty, with all the consequences you can imagine in terms of immigration."@en1
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