As governments continue to privatize infrastructure services like electricity or gas the importance of private infrastructure providers increases. After some years these providers are often confronted with stricter state regulation that impacts their freedom of action and reduces their...

Farming worldwide and national agricultural policies are in a profound crisis. Farmers everywhere are complaining about inadequate incomes. A large proportion of farms are threatened on both sides of the Atlantic, in the EC no less than in the USA. This situation has coincided with a period of...