The chair of the meeting, Grenada's George Bullen told BBC Caribbean Radio they're far from satisfied with it. "40 million for 18 countries. You don’t have to be a rocket scientist to see that's not a lot of money".

EU should offer more
What are they hoping to get? "Britain has said they feel it should be 100 million (Euros) next year", Ambassador Bullen claims, "and up to 500 million for the next 5 to 7 years. This is the type of ballpark figure we're looking for".

The cuts will hit hard at the Caribbean sugar industry, with estimated financial losses of up to 95 million dollars a year. The St Kitts government has already decided there's no future in sugar, and is closing its factories.

A hard sell
The EU's Agriculture Council had met in Brussels Monday the day before the ACP ambassadors did. It was the first chance European countries have had to discuss the coming cuts, and that was the meeting from which the multimillion aid package emerged.

Mr Bullen said Tuesday he understands as many as 10 countries did not like rescue package offer. "There were one or two who wanted the cuts to go even further, but we believe these were a minority. We believe there will be some sort of compromise", he told the BBC.