The opening of the European agricultural market will become a crucial challenge facing the European Community in the years to come. Attempts at reform have so far proofed insufficent. Especially ecologically orientated reforms will certainly contribute to secure European farmers an economic...

This article describes the evolution of the regulation of agricultural trade and analyses key aspects of the negotiations of the Uruguay and Doha Rounds, in which the least developed countries managed to make the final outcome of the negotiations conditional on progress in the liberalisation of...