The inclusion of agricultural products in the current customs union is one of the potential future steps on the road to further political and economic integration between Turkey and the EU. This book examines the effects of such integration of agricultural markets on the Turkish agricultural...

Im Dezember 2004 hat der Europäische Rat beschlossen, zum Oktober 2005 Beitrittsverhandlungen mit der Türkei aufzunehmen. Es wird allerdings sowohl von europäischer wie auch von türkischer Seite ein langer Verhandlungszeitraum und eine EU-Vollmitgliedschaft der Türkei nicht vor 2014...

This paper presents a partial equilibrium simulation analysis of EU sugar market reformswith a version of the European Simulation Model (ESIM) addressing three issues: preferential EUimports are a function of the price differential between world market and EU price, EU supplyfunctions are...

The Barcelona Process (Euro-Mediterranean Partnership) celebrated its tenth anniversary witha Summit of Head of Governors in November 2005. A five-year work programme, agreed bythe partners, marks the renewed efforts to implement the objectives of the Euro-MediterraneanPartnership. One of the...

The EU recently completed negotiating a series of Association Agreements withMediterranean countries. Trade preferences for agricultural goods granted under theseAgreements, as well as under former arrangements, are analyzed by calculating the valueof preference margins at several stages in the...

An importexceeds a "normal" level. This paper identifies various internal and external factors that can contribute to the emergence of agricultural import surges in developing countries and discusses their relevance. External factors play a rather minor role. Internal policies, whether carried...