Over the past decades EU agricultural trade policy has shifted away from interventionism and toward neoliberalism (Orbie 2007). Policies like export stabilisation schemes, non-reciprocal trade preferences and commodity protocols have all been abandoned, to be replaced by more market-oriented counterparts that conform to the World Trade Organization (WTO) rulebook. Sugar is an important example of this transition and the focus of this paper. (PDF – 2,85Mb) . . .
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