Just three years after the most recent reform which was designed to pave the way up to 2006 including the EU's eastern enlargement, agricultural commissioner Fischler is proposing new changes, some of them of a drastic nature, of the EU's Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). At the centre of the...

Given the strong agricultural orientation of their economies, agriculture is a matter of special interest to the majority of Central and Eastern European candidate countries for accession to the European Union. The farmers in these countries will benefit from the Common Agricultural Policy. The...