This book offers a comprehensive analysis of the Common Agricultural Policy which imposes high costs on taxpayers and consumers yet has proved very difficult to reform. Particular emphasis is placed on new developments affecting the shape of the CAP, including the outcome of the GATT Uruguay Round negotiations, Eastern enlargement, and developments in environmental policy. A distinctive feature of the book is the attention given to situating European agriculture within its global context and in relation to the food processing and agricultural supply industries.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Preface.- Introduction.- The Context of European Agriculture.- The Structure of European Agriculture and Food Processing.- The Development of the Common Agricultural Policy System Failures: the Agrimonetary System and the Fraud Problem.- Butter Mountains, Wine Lakes and Beef War: the Commodity Regimes.- Decision Making and the CAP.- The Reform Imperative: Eastern Enlargement, Trade and the Environment.- The Possibility of Radical Reform?.- References.
