FISCHER BOEL INTERVIEW
February 1st, 2005
BY DAVID HAWORTH, in BrusselsSUGAR quotas covering imports from some of the world's poorest economies are not a feasible option, according to the European Union's (EU) Commissioner for agriculture, Mrs Mariann Fischer Boel.She told Confectionary Production at her Brussels office that such quotas would inevitably mean higher prices with consequent damage for the Union's sugar producers and for the industry, especially where they were set at a lower level than national consumptions.In anticipation of an as yet unknown result of the EU's appeal in the WTO sugar ...
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