Srdjan Redepagic () (Department for European Economics and business, Faculty of Economics Subotica, Serbia)
Abstract
Agriculture posed considerable tensions for the processes of enlargement of the European Union, because of its continuing importance both in the economies of the applicant countries of Central and Eastern European countries which have joined EU on the 1st may 2004., and in the EU budget and acquis communautaire. The preparation of agriculture in the candidate countries to join the EU was rendered more complex by the fact that the Communitys Common Agricultural Policy was a moving target. The aim of this paper is to show the bases elements of the Common Agricultural Policy, but also to provide a survey of recent developments relating to agriculture in the EU and new member states of the EU before their accession to EU and their preparation to access on the enlarged market, in order to indicate the main challenges and difficulties posed by enlargement. It seems likely that agricultural policy in the enlarged EU will attach increased priority to objectives such as rural development and the environment. However, these new priorities may be expensive to realise, and may impose a growing burden on the national budgets of EU member states.
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Paper provided by Faculty of economics, Department of Economics in its series Working Papers with number
200646.
Length: 13 pages Date of creation: 2006 Date of revision:
Dec 2006 Publication status: Published in Panoeconomicus, December 2006, pages 457-470 Handle: RePEc:voj:wpaper:200646