A European Leap? The History of EC/EU Environmental Policy, 1980-2000. "Greening" the Common Agricultural Policy.
Dissertationsprojekt von Emiel Geurts
Betreuer: Prof. Dr. Kiran Klaus Patel
As part of the ELEMENT research project, this dissertation examines how notions of the environment, being a relatively recent and shifting concept, impacted the EC/EU’s well-established Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). The CAP was the EC’s flagship policy – both in terms of allocated resources as well as political, administrative and intellectual EC capabilities – for several decades from the 1960s onwards, which complicated fundamental reforms. While particular attention will be paid to the role of member state and European institutional actors in CAP negotiations, especially to those from France, Germany, the United Kingdom and the Netherlands, agricultural and environmental pressure groups are also addressed as key actors. Importantly, the project aims to transcend the boundaries of the EC/EU, relating the debates and developments surrounding the “greening” of the CAP to global reform trajectories discernible in GATT trade negotiations (1986-93) and US regulations.
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