biggest EU economies with the Southern Mediterranean Countries (SMCs). Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia are still strongly tied to … focused in Egypt, while the four other SMCs appear not to be priorities for non-Mediterranean EU countries. These differences … countries with strong economic links. EU external policy is still largely driven by member states' interests. Hence building …

This is the first paper to study job creation and destruction in EU agriculture. We disaggregate gross employment … patterns and net job flows into detailed intra-sectoral labour adjustment dynamics based on a unique EU-wide firm level panel … dataset for 1990-2005. We find that: (1) job creation and destruction rates in EU agriculture are comparable to other sectors …