Faced with significant changes and mutations at consumer level, the EU food market finds itself in a position in which it has to function by rules that could be considered “non-specific”. From a traditionally inelastic market, it has gradually become a consumer market on which the producers...

Despite the apparent recovery, the economies of developed countries seem to enter again in recession. The most important signs of this possibility are the precarious state of the labor market, consumer skepticism and lack of confidence and a global debt crisis by which the national governments...