A Política agrícola comum da Europacontrovérsias e continuidade

Resumo

The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) of the European Union (EU), one of the most important symbols of the European regional integration process, completed fifty years in 2012. At first glance, many of its positive aspects, which places the EU as the global largest exporter position of agri-food goods, stands strong in the defense of agricultural protectionism, position which is reflected in the European way of acting in the negotiations and the CAP as a concerned policy to ensure food security in the European Continent. All these elements show positive traits of European regional integration. However, the CAP is quite controversial because over the decades it favored the interests of the European farmers maintaining their income level, especially of certain member states of the EU, and it persists for more than five decades keeping the essence of its original structure, even being an extremely costly policy to citizens of the European bloc of regional integration and which results in imbalances. Taking into account these elements, the purpose of this article is to discuss the origins of the CAP, which are linked to food security in the post-Second World War Europe, the interests that supported its original formulation, the previous negotiations and those that occurred during its institutionalization process. In addition, we intend to analyze the first results of the integrated European policy in the agricultural area, which went through incremental changes until 1992.

Ficha do documento

Tipo

Estudo

Ano

2016

Instituição

Instituto de Pesquisa Econômica Aplicada (Ipea)

Fonte

Repositório do Ipea

Idioma

Português

Acesso

Acesso aberto

Identificador

oai:repositorio.ipea.gov.br:11058/7345

Licença

Licença Comum

Abrangência

Europa

Temas

Desenvolvimento Regional

Palavras-chave

Política AgrícolaIntegração RegionalSegurança AlimentarPolítica Agrícola Comum (PAC)Comunidade Econômica EuropeiaAgriculturaUnião Europeia