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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9534
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/agriculture

Reform of sugar sector could lead to loss of around 35,000 jobs in rural areas

Brussels, 30/10/2007 (Agence Europe) - On Tuesday 30 October, EFFAT, the European Federation of Food, Agriculture and Tourism Trade Unions published its provisional list of EU sugar sector companies which will close after the reform of the sugar sector comes into effect (see EUROPE 9380).

According to EFFAT's data, 59 European sugar sector specialists have already, or will have to, shut up shop between 2006 and 2008, and this does not take account of new factories that would probably have...

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