The Politics of CAP: The case of Greece

The complex and often conflicting policy objectives that CAP, either implicitly or explicitly, is designed to achieve as well as, due to trade-offs and compromises between stakeholders and between different stakeholders that inevitably arise when hard decisions must be made, make the adopted policies to be appeared as counter-intuitive for many CAP observers. This paper has modest aspirations; it does not seek to explain the recent EU proposal, not even to highlight the EU decision-making process. It merely attempts to sketch the public debate between the stakeholders and the political parties in Greece on Commission’s proposal.