The main ambition of this paper is to analyse agricultural developments in selected new EU member states with particular emphasis on government expenditures in agriculture. The main objective is to identify the relationship between government expenditures development on one side, and agrarian...

The 2003 reform of the CAP introduces a new system of single farm payments (income support) and cuts the link between support and production (decoupling). The majority of common organisations of markets (COMs) will become subject to this new system in 2005 or 2006 (with the exception of the new...