Fischer Boel offers no sugar sweet plans

SUGAR reforms was not the only sticky issue that confronted European Union Commissioner for Agriculture and Rural Development Mariann Fischer Boel when she visited Ireland yesterday.

She also had to address questions about the future funding of the Common Agricultural Policy, following the failure of the EU leaders to agree a budget, and other contentious matters in the sector.

Ireland’s opposition to the sugar reforms were put directly to the commissioner by Agriculture and Food Minister Mary Coughlan and by IFA president John Dillon.