The market of the EU countries represents a very specific mechanism for the working of competitive forces. Outwardly it is partially isolated from the effects of the world market by the Common Agricultural Policy and the Common Commercial Policy of the EU, but as a consequence of the free...

The paper analyses the impacts of EU membership on agrarian foreign trade of newly joined countries. In this case it deals with the countries of the European Community in 2004 and 2007 – thus, the Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, Slovenia, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Malta, Cyprus,...

Agricultural trade in the case of all of the analyzed countries (the Visegrad group, or only V4) represents only a minor part of the merchandise trade. The overwhelming majority of agricultural trade – export as well as import – je conducted in relation to EU countries. V4 market is also...