Would Renationalisation and Co-financing of the Common Agricultural Policy Be Justified?

Policy Instruments in the Common Agricultural Policy

Policy changes in the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) can be explained in terms of the exhaustion and long-term contradictions of policy instruments. Changes in policy instruments have reoriented the policy without any change in formal Treaty goals. The social and economic efficacy of instruments in terms of evidence-based policy analysis was a key factor in whether they were delegitimized. Th...

Co-operative agreements and the EU Water Framework Directive in conjunction with the Common Agricultural Policy

This paper discusses the significance of voluntary arrangements for the water and agricultural policies in the European Union. The current implementation of the European Water Framework Directive (WFD) and the reform of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) require new approaches in water management. As many case studies have shown, co-operative agreements (CAs) between water companies, farmers ...

The common agricultural policy after 2013

Would our treatment decisions be better justified in the absence of observational data?

Absence of Observational Data? In the May 2011 issue of the American Journal of Neuroradiology, Raymond et al scrutinized at length the methodologic weaknesses of 2 recent articles about the natural history and risk of hemorrhage in brain arteriovenous malformations (AVMs), one from our department and the other from Toronto Western Hospital. While part of their criticism is undeniable—such as i...

What definition of information would be emancipatory one?

Background and Aim: Human-information interaction, either in every day life or in research approaches, depends on pre-assumptions about “what information is”. Sometimes this pre-assumptions become axiomtic in a way that we must return to primary concerns about them to explore new social phenomenas. Information as an object is one of pre-assumptions. In this paper, the mentioned pre-assumptions ...