Consistent with proposals provided by the OECD, the practice of linking the Common Agricultural Policy with agricultural production was abandoned after the 2003 reform. Another substantial change was expected from the 2013 reform. In line with the OECD principle, the provision of public goods...

The future GAP structures for 2014 and beyond are more difficult to forecast than was the case in earlier reforms of a comparable scale. The main obstacles are the worrying problems of EU countries at the macroeconomic level, together with the greater role that the European Parliament is now...