Ten Central and Eastern European and two small insular countries have negotiated full membership with the EU. At the December 2002 European Council meeting it was decided that the management had been completed with ten of the twelve and that they could join the Union in May 2004. The purpose of...

The progress achieved through the 1992 CAP reform was not sufficient to meet the challenges facing the EU in the light of the WTO negotiations on the one hand and the EU's enlargement on the other hand. The Commission, having reviewed these prospects and the expected positive world market...

When the EC countries decided to tackle in common the agricultural problem by setting up a Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) they embarked on a task of immense economic and social implications. Despite the difficulties which this has caused from the start, many observers agree that on the whole...

Despite public concern and pressure for more effective consumer protection, Greece has only recently introduced legislation to protect consumers responding to its obligation to incorporate relevant EC directives in national legislation. The main aim of this paper is to analyse the effect of...

Agriculture is a vital element not only in the rural economy but also in the wider national economy of Greece. Greece's agriculture occupies the first place in terms of its share in GDP, population and balance of trade among the member states of the European (EU). Notwithstanding these...

Agriculture is a vital element not only of the rural economy but also of the wider national economy for the peripheral countries of the European Union (EU), namely Greece, Ireland, Portugal and Spain. It accounts for a significant part of their economies with the highest share in national income...

This paper aims at analyzing and predicting farmers' land use decisions. For this purpose, farmers' decision processes are described by a nested discrete choice model. At all levels of estimation, the values of the dependent variable indicate the proportion of land allocated to each agricultural...

Policy makers in Europe have become increasingly aware of the need to curb the adverse effects of transport externalities, in particular the impact of cars on the environment. In some countries of the European Union, economic instruments have been used to reduce emissions generated by passenger...