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Title: Managing Integration and Marginalisation for the New Europe
Authors: Goverde, Henri
Issue Date: 1999
Publisher: Faculdade de Economia da Universidade de Coimbra
Abstract: Este artigo analisa a forma como a UE encara e gere os seus interesses num contexto de globalização e de problemas económicos e políticos no sector agro-alimentar. Por um lado, a UE tem de se antecipar a futuras determinações da OMC para que prossiga na política de liberalização de mercado, sobretudo no domínio da produção agro-alimentar. Isto vai obrigar a UE a diminir o orçamento da PAC e a alargar o seu mercado estendendo as fronteiras aos países da Europa central e de leste. Por outro lado, os obstáculos criados pelos empresários do sector agro-alimentar renitentes aos cortes dos subsídios da PAC, podem gerar uma incapacidade orçamental para integrar as economias do centro e leste da Europa, correndo-se o perigo de a UE perder força nas próximas negociações com a OMC. Nesse caso, não só os países do centro e leste europeu continuarão marginalizados relativamente à Europa, como a própria UE pode, a longo prazo, ficar também ela marginalizada no sistema económico mundial.
Dans cet article l’auteur analyse la façon dont l’UE envisage et gère ses intérêts dans un contexte de globalisation et problèmes économiques et politiques dans le secteur agro-alimentaire. D’un côté, l’UE doit s’anticiper aux déterminations futures de l’Organisation Mondiale du Commerce de poursuivre dans le chemin de la libéralisation des marchés, surtout dans le domaine de la production agroalimentaire. L’UE sera obligée de réduire le budget de la PAC et étendre son marché vers les pays de l’Europe centrale et de l’est. D’un autre côté, les obstacles créés par ceux qui s’opposent aux réductions des subsides de la PAC peuvent déterminer une incapacité budgétaire qui ne permettrait pas d’intégrer les économies du centre et de l’est de l’Europe. L’UE pourrait, ainsi, affaiblir sa position dans les futures négociations avec l’OMC et, dans ce cas, non seulement ces pays continueront d’être marginalisés, mais l’UE finira elle aussi par être marginalisée dans le système économique mondial.
In this article the author describes how the EU perceives and manages the common European interests in the context of globalization and of agro-food political and economic affairs. On the one hand the EU has to anticipate on the coming WTO-round, which will force the EU to continue to operationalise the free market ideology, particularly in the field of agriculture and food production. This urges the EU to diminish the budget for the CAP and to enlarge the EU-market by opening its borders to CEE countries. On the other hand the EU has to cope with many obstacles mostly produced by well-organized agro-entrepreneurs that don’t want to accept savings in the CAP subsidiary system. Then the total budgetary capacity will not be enough to incorporate the CEE economies. The risk of this political process is that the EU will loose power in the coming WTO negotiations. Furthermore, the CEE countries will continue to be in a marginal position within Europe. Finally, the EU itself can become in a relative marginal position in world economic system in the long term.
URI: https://hdl.handle.net/10316.2/25033
ISSN: 2183-203X
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