The assessment of the role for the EU and the member states in environmental andagricultural policy in this paper is based on the principle of subsidiarity. Applied to thequestion of centralisation versus decentralisation of policy design and implementation, thesubsidiarity principle states that...

At the EU Council in December 2004, European heads of governments will decide on apotential date for the start of EU accession negotiations with Turkey. Various recent analysesassess the cost of applying the Common Agricultural Policy of the EU (CAP) to Turkeywithout taking into account the...