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The Doha Round Bali ‘mini-package’ in agriculture - by Alan Matthews 22 Aug 2013 | 02:57 pm
In the previous post, I discussed the process leading up to the forthcoming Bali Ministerial Conference of the WTO and the prospects for progress on a Doha Round ‘mini-package’. This ‘mini-package’ is...
Prospects for a Doha Round mini-package at Bali this year - by Alan Matthews 21 Aug 2013 | 12:25 pm
With Brussels and national capitals closed for the month of August so little happening on the CAP front, it is timely for a stock-taking of the state of play in the multilateral trade negotiations. I...
Intervention arrangements in the new CAP - by Alan Matthews 19 Aug 2013 | 03:28 pm
Growing price volatility on agricultural markets has renewed focus on the role of market support instruments. In successive CAP reforms, the role of market instruments has changed from essentially det...
CAP reform implementation consultations begin - by Alan Matthews 1 Aug 2013 | 10:49 am
The most defining characteristic of the political agreement reached on CAP reform in June 2013 in hindsight may not be the greening of Pillar 1 payments or the move towards greater ‘fairness’ in the C...
Does the CAP cap agricultural spending in the EU? - by Alan Matthews 26 Jul 2013 | 02:21 pm
Every so often the debate about how far and how fast powers should be transferred from member states to the Union level within the EU and vice versa gains momentum. This debate about the optimal degre...
WTO EU Trade Policy Review 2013 - by Alan Matthews 25 Jul 2013 | 09:08 pm
Every two years the WTO secretariat undertakes a review of the EU’s trade policy including agricultural policy measures which affect trade. The agricultural section of the review builds on the EU’s no...
The CAP budget in the MFF Part 3 – Pillar 2 rural development allocations - by Alan Matthews 10 Jul 2013 | 05:36 am
When the European Council agreed on the EU’s multi-annual financial framework (MFF) for 2014-2020 in February this year, the overall allocation to the CAP’s Pillar 2 was made known but not the individ...
The CAP budget in the MFF Part 2 – direct payment envelopes in Pillar 1 - by Alan Matthews 8 Jul 2013 | 04:18 am
In my previous post I discussed some of the difficulties in comparing the money set aside for the CAP in the 2014-2020 Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) and in the current 2007-2013 MFF. Among the...
The CAP budget in the MFF agreement - by Alan Matthews 4 Jul 2013 | 01:43 am
Today the European Parliament approved the political agreement on the MFF reached with the Irish Presidency, thus concluding the negotiations on the EU’s medium-term financial framework until 2020. A ...
A triumph for the Irish Presidency – a damp squib for CAP reform - by Alan Matthews 27 Jun 2013 | 10:27 pm
Yesterday morning (Wednesday 27 June), in a final trilogue, the Irish Presidency reached a political agreement with the European Parliament negotiating team on remaining outstanding issues on the CAP ...
