EU Agricultural Policy

ECIPE Publications

• Public Money for Public Goods: Winners and Losers from CAP Reform (By Valentin Zahrnt)
• Transparency of Complex Regulation: How Should WTO Trade Policy Reviews Deal with Sanitary and Phytosanitary Policies? (By Valentin Zahrnt)
• A Blueprint for Reform of the WTO Agreement on Agriculture (By Valentin Zahrnt)
• Reforming the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy: Health Check, Budget Review, Doha Round (By Valentin Zahrnt)
• Assessing the EC Trade Policy in Goods (By Patrick A Messerlin)

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Articles, Opinion and Commentary

• Greening the CAP, and pruning it too (It will soon be crunch-time for Europe's controversially expensive CAP. Valentin Zahrnt puts forward ideas for slimming the EU’s €50bn a year farm budget while making it environmentally attractive. Published in Europe's World.)
• Farm MEPs for farm subsidies (Article in EuropeanVoice.com)
• Investing in Foreign Land (A food-security calculus or sound commercial logic)
• A CAP that better serves the public and the environment (Article by Alan Swinbank and Valentin Zahrnt in European Voice)
• The Eastern European interest in EU agricultural subsidy reform (Valentin Zahrnt on the CAP in The Baltic Times )

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Events

• 2009-09-09 - ECIPE Lunch Seminar: Agricultural policy reform in the US and the EU
• 2009-03-04 - Back to Basics: How to Make WTO Agreements on Agriculture More Effective?
• 2008-11-13 - What are the Prospects for Reforming EU Agricultural Policies?