The EU sugar industry: facing challenges, supporting a just transition
Today (Friday 9 October 2020), the social partners CEFS and EFFAT held their online Social Dialogue meeting. Topics discussed during the meeting included: COVID-19, Brexit and the CEFS and EFFAT joint project. The social partners’ joint statement summarising key messages from the meeting can be found via this link.
CEFS-EFFAT joint statement: the EU sugar industry matters!
Presenting the conclusions of the High-Level Group on sugar at the working group meeting of the EU sugar sector social dialogue, representatives of the European Commission Directorate General for Agriculture & Rural Development once again offered no concrete, immediate actions to the most pressing question ever faced by the EU beet sugar sector: how to [...]
CEFS and EFFAT speak out: no response to an unrelenting market decline
Speaking at today’s plenary meeting of the EU sugar sector social dialogue, representatives of the European Commission Directorate General for Agriculture & Rural Development once again offered no answers to the most pressing question ever faced by the EU beet sugar sector: how to arrest the current serious, unprecedented, and prolonged market decline? Over three months [...]