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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8999

28 July 2005
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/agriculture

27/07/2005 (Agence Europe) - Hellenic Sugar Industry's president Christos Koskinas at a seminar on Tuesday in Thessalonica called for a gradual decline in the institutional price of sugar by 20% over a period of four to five years, starting from 2007, instead of a 39% cut over a two-year period. Koskinas believes that the Commission proposal would mean the destruction of the sugar industry in Greece and other Member States. He added that he had been informed about an Italian initiative in...

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