Much criticism notwithstanding, the essentials of the common agricultural policy have up to now scarcely been changed. What kind of basic changes would have to be introduced for a new agricultural policy to become also politically acceptable? The following article suggests alternatives to the...

Joint decisions each year on agricultural prices by the Council of Ministers of Agriculture are a requisite of the European Community’s Common Agricultural Policy. It is however more and more difficult to reach joint decisions on these prices. Divergencies of national aims and economic...

That the Common Agricultural Policy of the European Community is in need of reform is by now commonly accepted. But all moves for a reform on the political level have been postponed until after the French elections in the spring, a fact which highlights the political problems. Is there a real...

The recent announcement of the French Government’s decision to support the French agriculture this spring by direct income transfers to the tune of ffr 4.6 bn brings home the fact that some national governments need national autonomy in agricultural policy. Regrettably it seems to foreshadow...

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...

Before the European summit in February 1988, EC agricultural policy was being criticized by almost all those affected. Farmers complained about low incomes and the lack of prospects, consumers and taxpayers about the high cost of agricultural support, politicians about spending commitments that...

After protracted negotiations, the EC Ministers of Agriculture agreed on a reform of the Common Agricultural Policy on July 1st. Will this reform solve the fundamental problems plaguing the common agricultural market? Is it compatible with the GATT?

Der Erfolg einer Politik wird häufig mit dem Umfang der eingesetzten Finanzmittel gleichgesetzt. Die Autoren dieses Beitrag halten eine solche Einschätzung für verfehlt. Vielmehr sollten die Kosten dem Nutzen gegenübergestellt und einzelne Instrumente nicht mit unterschiedlichen Zielen...

Der Gesetzgeber der Europäischen Union (EU) hat die Europäische Kommission mit der Überprüfung der Maßnahmen der ersten Säule der Gemeinsamen Agrarpolitik (GAP) beauftragt, insbesondere der direkten Einkommensstützung. Dazu hat der Gesetzgeber die politischen Ziele dargelegt und die...