EU Implements Further Sugar Reforms

The European Union's sugar regime continues to come under scrutiny, this time from many of its former colonies, who are accusing Brussels of coercion in its dealings with developing sugar-producing states. The EU has now ended the 32-year-old sugar trading pact which was set up under a special aid-and-trade pact with 18 African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) sugar-producing countries. Anti-poverty lobbyists had been demanding that the EU stop negotiations on free-trade pacts with ACP counties, saying that these will undermine their development. However, the EU decided to scrap the system which guaranteed these countries free access to the EU market

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