11 November 2005
Le Vif/L'Express - Le Prix Amur du Sucre
Les ministres de l'Agriculture de l'Union européenne pourraient décider, les 22 et 23 novembre, une baisse de 39% du prix du sucre. Nos betteraviers n'en seront pas les seules victimes: la potion sera aussi amère pour certains pays endéveloppement, à commencer par l'île Maurice.

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18 October 2005
BBC - Region warned of tough sugar battle
Glenys Kinnock, a member of the European Parliament, has said the battle for adequate compensation for Caribbean sugar farmers from the European Union is going to be difficult. Touring the Caribbean with a delegation of parliamentarians from the European Union and the African, Caribbean and Pacific parliamentary assembly, Mrs. Kinnock said the proposed cuts are way too steep and would cause social instability and has promised to help the region get a better deal. 

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16 October 2005
Stabroek News - Kinnock calls sugar cuts a fundamental injustice; eight-year phase-in proposed
Member of Parliament Glenys Kinnock is part of the visiting ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly and Task Force to Guyana to assess the impact of proposed price cuts that would result in African, Caribbean and Pacific sugar producers experiencing a reduction of 40% in exports to Europe.

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8 October 2005
Europe Information Service - ACPs welcome EP's demands for longer transition for sugar reform
The ACP countries on 5 October welcomed a European Parliament report calling for a longer phase-in period for price cuts for their sugar growers. The report by British Socialist Glenys Kinnock argues that sugar price cuts for ACPs should be phased in over a period of eight years instead of four as proposed by the Commission. It also calls for financial support to be allocated to the ACPs from the proposed restructuring fund.

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23 September 2005
Wall Street Journal Europe - EU Trade Disputes May Pose Threat to Global Talks
Europe's long-running battles with developing countries over banana and sugar trade, so far largely a sideshow to broader world trade talks, loom as worrying threats to global negotiations. Poorer nations from the South Pacific to Latin America are threatening to use a critical meeting of trade ministers in Hong Kong in December to force Europe to change its plans in the banana and sugar markets.

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22 September 2005
European Voice - A spoonful of sugar helps the message go down
Over the past week, trade and farm ministers from many ACP countries have flown to Brussels in a bid to convince their EU counterparts that the Commission plan spells doom for their sugar industries.

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20 September 2005
La Tribune - Les pays ACP défendent leurs producteurs de sucre à Bruxelles
Des représentants des pays Afrique-Caraïbes-Pacifique ont rencontré les ministres de l'Agriculture des Vingt-Cinq. Ils s'opposent à la réforme "brutale" du régime sucrier proposée par la Commission.

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15 September 2005
European Voice - Sugar price cuts 'jar' with UN goals
Farm ministers from 18 developing countries will tell their EU counterparts next week that planned reforms of the Union's sugar regime will exacerbate poverty.

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24 August 2005
Financial Times - Setback on sugar for Caribbean countries
Letter to the Editor of the Financial Times by Glenys Kinnock MEP: Richard Lapper is correct in his assessment of the potentially devastating effects of the proposed reform of the European Union's sugar regime on countries such as those in the Caribbean that are signatories of the Sugar Protocol.

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15 August 2005
Financial Times - A bitter harvest: the Caribbean faces the prospect of a life without sugar
Two months ago, the European Union announced its intention to cut the price it pays for the sugar produced in Guyana and 17 other poor countries from the Caribbean, Africa and the Pacific by 39 per cent over the next five years, plunging the depressed industry into even deeper uncertainty.

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7 August 2005
Sunday Telegraph - The sour taste of Europe's sugar reforms
Proposals to open up and liberalise the EU sugar market are likely to damage growers in poor countries - against the spirit of pledges by Tony Blair to help these nations by making trade fair.

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20 July 2005
Le Monde - Les betteraviers se mobilisent contre la réforme de l'industrie sucrière prévue par l'Union européenne
Plus de 5,000 betteraviers ont manifesté afin de protester contre la réforme de l'industrie sucrière européenne, tandis que les ministres de l'agriculture examinaient le project présenté voilà un mois par la Commission. La réforme suscite aussi des réactions mitigées parmi les partenaires commerciaux de l'Union, qui ont longtemps prospéré grȃce à la générosité du dispositif européen.

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19 July 2005
CNN.com - EU sugar play sparks bitter row
Thousands of sugar farmers from Europe and Asia Pacific countries have been protesting over plan to reform Europe's sugar sector.
 
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14 July 2005
European Parliament News Report - A sour reaction to the sugar reform at EP hearing
Both "incomplete" and "too radical": the sugar reform proposed by the European Commission left a bitter taste for MEPs and stakeholders on Wednesday. In the first EP public hearing to follow Commissioner Mariann Fischer Boel's presentation of the reform to the Common Market Organisation on Sugar, there was broad consensus that the social aspects of the package needed to be strengthened.

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22 June 2005
BBC News - EU sugar reform splits exporters
EU plans to slash sugar subsidies by 40% have alarmed African and Caribbean states but were welcomed by Brazil, the world's biggest producer. The cut will mean the loss of a guaranteed minimum price for exporters in countries like Tanzania and Guyana.

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