This volume is a study of present and future Common Agricultural Policy in the European Union. It focuses on the practicality of policy proposals in the face of huge challenges, especially in the context of EU enlargement to the east. The Common Agricultural Policy has ben important, arguably the most important, joint policy of the European Union for nearly 30 years and still accounts for over half of its expenditure. Long seen as a disaster by economists, many European governments are reluctant to face the political upheaval of further reforms which could benefit consumers, taxpayers and much of the rest of EU industry and services. This study analyzes the factors which will impact on the CAP over the next few years and offers suggestions for the future direction of EU agricultural policy. The changing market for food products, environmental pressures and evolving technological developments all provide the backdrop against which the influences of continuing budgetary constraints and the attitudes of member states will operate. Outside the EU itself, GATT and developments in central and Eastern Europe will add to the need for new policy directions.
Each of these factors is considered before some coherent and practical proposals are made for how European agricultural policy might develop in the future.
- ISBN10 1855673312
- ISBN13 9781855673311
- Publish Date 1 May 1995
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 5 January 2006
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Imprint Frances Pinter Publishers Ltd
- Format Paperback (UK Trade)
- Pages 128
- Language English