Brussels, 22/04/2002 (Agence Europe) - Last week the International Confederation of European Beet Growers (CIBE) resoundly criticised the plan to negotiate economic partnership agreements between the EU and African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries recently unveiled by the European Commission (see EUROPE of 6 April, p.10). They see the negotiating mandate as "destructive" for EU and candidate country beet farmers since it would not led to development agreements in the sugar sector, but...