Meat MarketNational and international meat markets recovered in 2002 from the disturbances recently caused by animal diseases (BSE, FMD). Relaxed trade restrictions allowed world trade to grow at an overall rate of 2.5 per cent as against only 1 per cent in 2001. In several world regions as e.g....

Over the last decades the EU Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) has been increasingly influenced by the WTO negotiations. The MacSharry-Reform and the Mid Term Review (MTR) reform of the CAP for example improved the conformity between the EU agricultural policy and the liberalization requirements...

Der Beitrag untersucht die sich aus den Luxemburger Beschlüssen sowie weiterführenden Reformen ergebenden Markt- und Wohlfahrtseffekte am EU-Milchmarkt. Im Mittelpunkt steht dabei der bislang wenig beachtete Einfluss instabiler Weltmärkte, der die Politikanalyse in ein unsicheres Umfeld...

What Potentials Does the Swiss Direct Payment Regime Offer for the CAPThe paper has the goal to check whether elements of the Swiss direct payment regime could serve as a model for the EU. It does so by checking the direct payment regime's accordance with the concept of an efficient and...