CNRP leaders lobby EU Parliamentarians over ‘Blood Sugar’
The opposition CNRP made another pitch for an end to free trade benefits for Cambodian sugar exports to the European Union at a meeting in Phnom Penh on Wednesday with visiting European Parliament members, blaming the benefits for effectively subsidizing companies that are evicting poor local farmers. Cambodia’s sugar plantations are accused of stealing land from thousands of farmers across the country. Critics have been calling for a suspension of the duty-free access their sugar exports to Europe currently enjoy, but the E.U.’s trade commissioner has so far refused to initiate an investigation, a necessary first step before E.U. benefits can be removed. …
Hul Reaksmey
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cnrp-leaders-lobby-eu-parliamentarians-over-blood-sugar-55002/
