A summary and expose of the seminar PSCT512: AGRICULTURE AND AGRICULTURAL POLICIES IN THE EUROPEAN UNION
This seminar consist of three major parts: The treatment of agriculture in the negotiations process of the establishment of the European Union with particular emphasis on devising policies that would eventually unify agricultural policy on an EU scale.
The second part relates to the application of the Common Agricultural Policy over time starting with the initial years of the union to the present time aiming to demonstrate how the evolution of agricultural policies have contributed to the realization of ‘an agricultural union’ parallel with the evolution of a union in industry and services. The admission of new members with agricultural sectors quite different to that of the European Union has made it mandatory that special considerations should be given to the treatment of the agriculture of the new incoming members. This has undoubtedly had effects on the implementation of the union-wide agricultural policy.
Finally, the seminar looks at a comparison of European Agriculture shaped by the CAP with agriculture in other developed countries like the United States, Canada and Australia.
The seminar ends with a global comparison and assessment of the practice of agricultural economic policy between the EU and the developing world.
- Eğitimci: Ahmet Aker