The CAP in disarray: EU Commission proposes basic direct payments to EU farmers

Direct payments were originally justified as a mechanism to compensate farmers for the income loss incurred due to reduced intervention prices. However, this rationale is not valid any more, and a new justification for basic income support by granting basic decoupled direct payments has been proposed by the EU Commission. The following paper identifies a number of problems related to this proposal.

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Year of publication:	2012
Authors:	Koester, Ulrich
Published in:	Intereconomics. - Heidelberg : Springer, ISSN 1613-964X. - Vol. 47.2012, 3, p. 170-174
Publisher:	Heidelberg : Springer
Subject:	EU-Agrarpolitik \| Agrarsubvention \| Wirkungsanalyse \| EU-Staaten

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Type of publication:	Article
Type of publication (narrower categories):	Article
Language:	English
Other identifiers:	10.1007/s10272-012-0417-8 [DOI] 724299688 [GVK] hdl:10419/98234 [Handle]
Source:	EconStor

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