Research for AGRI Committee - The Interactions between the EU's External Action and the Common Agricultural Policy
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07-07-2016
The CAP has been strongly influenced by the EU’s External Actions. The various Enlargements, and trade policies to favour its neighbours to both the East and South, and for its former colonies, have left their mark. However it is external pressures through the GATT/WTO that have had the most defining effect. Current pressures stem from a new generation of Free Trade agreements, the need to reduce agriculture’s greenhouse gas emissions, and to respond to Brexit.
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External author
Alan SWINBANK (School of Agriculture, Policy and Development, University of Reading, the UK)
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Policy area
Keyword
- ACP-EU Convention
- agricultural policy
- agricultural structures and production
- agricultural trade
- AGRICULTURE, FORESTRY AND FISHERIES
- agriculture-trade relationship
- aid to agriculture
- common agricultural policy
- common commercial policy
- cooperation policy
- development aid
- enlargement of the Union
- ENVIRONMENT
- environmental policy
- European construction
- European neighbourhood policy
- EUROPEAN UNION
- free-trade agreement
- GATT
- generalised preferences
- INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATIONS
- INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
- international trade
- reduction of gas emissions
- sustainable agriculture
- tariff negotiations
- tariff policy
- trade
- TRADE
- trade dispute
- trade policy
- world organisations
- World Trade Organisation