Common agricultural policy (cap) has been the most criticized European community policy (EC). The European union (EU) is the worlds largest agricultural importer and the worlds second largest exporter.

For the past 30 years the common agricultural policy has made the EU the the worlds second largest exporter in agricultural products. In order for that to happen it means that the European agricultural products are very competitive through out the world. The EU market share world wide was 21%in 1981 and 30%in 1989, meaning that EU was becoming better in exporting against its main rival the US.

Let me state very briefly some factors that someone should know in order to understand why several issues happened for several countries since we will travel back to time to 1950s and then to the 21st century.

The European Economic Community (EEC) was created by the treaty of Rome in 1957,then in 1967 the EEC came together with the European Atomic Energy Community and the European coal and steel community and formed the European Community (EC). In 1992 the treaty of Maa

In 1999 the EU adopted changes to the CAP and formed a package called “agenda 2000” .This program was a new financial framework for 7 years through 2006. “CAP budget costs amounted to over 47 billion dollars in 1997 and accounted for 50%of all EU expenditures.” So agenda 2000 was introduced in order to cut costs of the CAP ad make trade better off.

The CAP has achieved a lot of its goals during the last 40 years. In order for the CAP to continue working efficiently changes were made since it originally started along with that researches for new technologies have been introduced with increased agricultural production. In order for these changes to occur the CAP had to undergo a lot of loses, chronic surpluses of agricultural goods and increased budget costs that made it politically un popular. Along with these loses the CAP also brought along some negative feedbacks on the EU on the recent years. These were environmental destruction, food safety, animal healthcare plus budget costs. These were believed by consumers and so for some of them the CAP was disliked. On the other hand due to the increase in agriculture due to the CAP mechanism there was an economic growth over the years that decreased unemployment.

Since the cap was introduced that uncounted for high and stable prices which brought about a new technology and therefore inv

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