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EU-US TRADE AGREEMENT – THE DEATH OF DOHA?

March 21, 2013

The enthusiasm of the European Union and the United States for the forging of a bilateral trade agreement, while it may be good news – largely for multinationals involved in transatlantic trade – bodes ill for the future of multilateral trade liberalisation. Such agreements are as important for what is excluded as what they may… » read more

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Public Affairs

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FOOD SECURITY AND TRADE – AN UNBREAKABLE LINK

February 23, 2011

Improved food security has long been a justification for protecting farmers. In the long history of European agriculture policy flinging up tariff walls and subsidising production has nearly always been the governmental response to the prospect of potential food shortage. The evidence that such actions generally result in a reduction of production outside the protected… » read more

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US HOLDS KEY TO DOHA

June 16, 2010

The Doha Round of trade liberalisation negotiations is well and truly stalled. No one is in any doubt about that. What there is doubt about however is: why? Developing country demands for greater farm subsidy reductions by the European Union and other developed countries, lack of access for European goods and services, US demands for… » read more

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CAP Reform, English, Public Affairs, Trade & Industry

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Brian Gardner's Blog

Commentary on European developments from the perspective of long term professional interest in European and international trade, agriculture and food policy, nurtured over three decades spent in Brussels observing and analysing the development of the CAP.

Post Brexit, new relationships between the UK and the EU and the UK and the rest of the world are a major pre-occupation. My book ‘European Agriculture: Policies, Production and Trade’ is a distillation of this experience. More recently, my analysis of the politics and technicalities of feeding 9 billion people by the mid-century is  ‘Global Food Futures – Feeding the world in 2050’, published by Bloomsbury. I continue to observe European  policy as it copes with the challenges of UK isolationism, Europe-US challenges, trade liberalisation, climate change and other environmental problems. My assessment of the realities for UK agriculture after 2020 are  set out in a recent report for Agra Europe: Preparing for Brexit.


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