
We must act now to save our sugar market
London MEP Marina Yannakoudakis hosted a working lunch at the European Parliament in Strasbourg yesterday for MEPs and representatives of Europe’s sugar cane refining industry.
The event brought together prominent members of the parliament’s agriculture and rural development committee (AGRI) in an effort to address the problems facing the sector.
Refiners from the UK, […]
Continue Reading →London MEP accuses EU Commission of letting down citizens
A shortage of sugar cane imports into the EU is driving up the cost of sugar and threatening jobs in the manufacturing sector. The EU rules which have affected the trade of sugar cane were the subject of discussion in the European Parliament today.
In the debate, London Conservative MEP Marina Yannakoudakis accused the European […]
Continue Reading →62 MEPs call for sweeter deal for sugar cane refiners
EU rules on sugar are making the EU’s sugar refineries unviable with thousands of highly-skilled jobs at risk across Europe. London Conservative MEP Marina Yannakoudakis has led the charge against the European Commission’s competition-distorting rules. She, along with 61 MEPs from 11 countries, has today written to EU Agriculture Commissioner Dacian Cioloş calling for a […]
Continue Reading →London MEP calls for level playing field for sugar cane importers
Conservative MEP Marina Yannakoudakis today met with officials from the European Commission to fight EU rules which are threatening jobs at Tate & Lyle Sugars Silvertown refinery in her London constituency.
Because of strict EU preferential access rules, Tate & Lyle Sugars is currently unable to source sugar cane in the quantities that it needs […]
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