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Agricultures / CAP
_At the beginning of the process of European integration, following the Second World War, the problems of supplying the population and of the reconstruction of modern agriculture were at the heart of the concerns of the continent. Founded by the Treaty of Rome (1957) and implemented in 1962, the CAP(Common Agricultural Policy) which, with some 42% of the community budget, representing a heavy weight of the overall expenditure, has met over the course of time a significant reform. Since the 1990’s the reforms have been looking to decrease the agricultural surplus as well as the size of the CAP in the Union budget- which has become, with the expansion of the EU, a real challenge. With the reformation of the PAC, regional rural development and long-lasting agriculture appear more clearly in the foreground of the common policy.
In the context of globalization, the system of funding of European agriculture, that is the CAP, is criticized for the little space it leaves for agricultural products from Southern countries.
Agriculture is therefore an important field in European politics, as much inside the EU, when the negotiation on agricultural funding turned to conflict, as outside, involving the role of the EU in the world (in particular, within the framework of the World Trade Organization)
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