EFFAT
EFFAT is the European Federation of Trade Unions in the Food, Agriculture and Tourism sectors resulting from the merger concluded between two European trade union federations, the ECF-IUF and EFA, on 11 December 2000. As a European trade union federation representing more than 2.6 million members of 120 national trade unions from 35 European countries, EFFAT defends the interests of workers in agriculture, food & beverages industry, hotels, restaurants & catering towards the European Institutions, European employers’ associations and enterprise managements.
Consistent Community Policy for the Sugar Sector
Inconsistent strategies in the different services of the European Commission put the future of most of the companies of the European sugar industry at stake and are sentencing the sugar workers to perpetual restructuring.
EFFAT's view on sustainable development
Sustainable development seeks to "meet the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs” in the sense of balance between economic, social and environmental elements.
- Still, increasingly rapid global changes, from the melting of the icecaps to growing energy and resource demand, are challenging this objective.
EFFAT’s view on the negotiations in the Doha round of the WTO
After the Doha Development Round of the World Trade Organization (WTO) could not provide satisfactory results regarding agricultural import rules, the negotiations broke down in July 2008. This is due to the insurmountable divide on major issues, such as agriculture, industrial tariffs and non-tariff barriers, services, and trade remedies between the most developed nations led by the European Union, the United States and Japan on the one hand, and the major emerging countries such as India, Brazil, China and South Africa on the other hand.
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