Category: General posts
30.03.2010
Agriculture is special. It therefore deserves an outstanding dose of public subsidies. Or so we are told. But is there anything that is not special? The standard approach of CAP critics is analytical: debunking erroneous claims for subsidies. The problem is that rational argument goes only that far. So the idea is to try something else: making up far-fetched cases in favor of subsidizing non-agricultural sectors. Their resemblance to some pro-CAP arguments would show the latter’s absurdity. The alternative is to look at non-agricultural regions: cities' claim to special treatment give a real-world set of arguments that is hard to match.
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Category: Studies
25.03.2010
European Environment Agency, 2009
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Category: General posts
22.03.2010
More sites dedicated to the CAP are becoming available and multi-issue sites improve their coverage of CAP issues. A structured selection of CAP blogs, Internet platforms and research institutes can be found here. This post takes a closer, comparative look at three leading sites: cap2020, capreform and reformthecap.
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Category: Studies
19.03.2010
Nowicki, P. et. al., 2010
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Category: Studies
19.03.2010
Johan F.M. Swinnen, Pavel Ciaian and d’Artis Kancs, 2010.
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Category: General posts
17.03.2010
Names matter, and Common Agricultural Policy is the wrong name for a policy promoting European public goods related to land use.
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Category: Studies
11.03.2010
Bruno Henry de Frahan, Tharcisse Nkunzimana, Rembert De Blander, Frédéric Gaspart and Daniel A. Sumner, 2008
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Category: General posts
11.03.2010
Stefan Tangermann (retired OECD Director for Trade and Agriculture, and Professor Emeritus, University of Göttingen) has written a powerful critique of the Single Farm Payment in Agra Europe. He concludes that 'Targeted payments to farmers providing specific public goods where they are needed are a much more convincing policy than general payments arguably justified by cross-compliance.'
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Category: General posts
11.03.2010
1789: the people of Paris take the Bastille. 1848: republican upheaval all across Europe. 1917: the Communists take power in Russia. 2010: the European Socialists & Democrats declare in a position paper that the CAP needs to be revolutionized.
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