date:Feb 18, 2014
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The market is oversupplied and the world market price for white sugar does not even cover the production costs of the most competitive sugar producers worldwide. It is therefore totally unacceptable for the Commission to introduce more measures to flood the market with sugar.
This would seriously disturb the market balance, put more pressure on the sector, threatening employment in EU rural areas. Any drop in market prices resulting from this measure would also only benefit the sugar us