The expanding membership of the EU means significant changes for accession countries' international trade relations … ramifications for the EU budget. This book is a valuable comprehensive tool kit for analysing the economic effect of EU accession …, using examples from the most complex sector for both candidate countries and the EU itself - agriculture. The authors …

. Centralised decision making at the EU level has characterised recent agricultural policy and the authors argue that centralised … relevant to policymakers within EU nations, as well as policymakers within the countries of Eastern and Central Europe who will … be amongst the first to be admitted to the EU in the next wave of expansion …