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A Blueprint for Reform of the WTO Agreement on Agriculture
As the Doha negotiations are at a dead end, Valentin Zahrnt addresses some fundamental questions about the future direction of WTO disciplines in...
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The European Dairy Sector at a Crossroad: Production Quota and Export Refund Opting Out
The European Union (EU) reactivated export refunds for dairy products on January 2009. These world market distortive instruments had been previously...
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Reforming the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy: Health Check, Budget Review, Doha Round
This Policy Brief provides recommendations for agricultural policy reform in the EU. It argues, first, that all measures that distort market...
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EU Trade Barriers in the Agri-food Sector: When Protection Breeds Dependence
This paper looks for firm-level evidence that high rates of protection breed concentration of firm activities into highly protected sectors,...
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Legal Framework Applicable to Publication of Direct Farm Subsidies in France
• Whereas for a long time Member States had full freedom to make farm subsidies data available, European law now aims at imposing more precise...
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Assessing the EC Trade Policy in Goods
The recent shift in European trade policy to negotiate bilateral agreements with no less than 24 countries is taking Europe into dangerous waters....