Any exploration of the power dynamics that underly Franco-German tandem can surely benefit from insights creation Common Agriculture Policy provides. The purpose this article is to ascertain which government achieved its objectives more fully during negotiations between France and West Germany leading up CAP, determine how those greater successes might be explained. This by applying discourse a...

This paper discusses issues raised for OECD agricultural and agriculture-related policies by the policy coherence for development perspective. These issues are organised in a five-fold typology covering OECD domestic agricultural policy, agricultural trade policy, regulatory policies, development cooperation policy as well as the coherence of developing country policies. Changes in OECD agricul...

The decoupling of direct payments from production, introduced in the recent reform of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) is expected to make production decisions more marketoriented and farmers more productive. However, ex-post analyses of the productivity of farms have yet to uncover any evidence of a positive impact of the decoupling policy on farm productivity. Using Irish, Danish and Dutc...

A common characteristic of the EC countries is a general tendency towards an aging society. This demographic change is expected to have among others important consequences for the use of care services: the EC countries have all become aware of, on the one hand, the expected increase of use of care services for the elderly and the related increase of public expenditures and, on the other hand, t...