AG 003 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Price Support, Western Europe, Intergovernmentalism

• School: College of The Sequoias
• Department: Agriculture (AG)
• Course: AG 003
• Professor: Hinojosa

Document Summary

A series of intergovernmental negotiations set the cap onto a quite different course. High prices for eu farmers production, while keeping international competition away through import levies and export subsidies. Mansholt"s plan to restructure european agricul watered down, structural policy anchored at the national level. Protection of farm incomes had won over other considerations (consumer concerns or restructuring of the farm sector) De influence was decisive in securing high prices on cereals. Farm exceptionalism a policy belief in exceptional characteristics of agricul, justified a high degree of state assistance in this sector. The cap of the 1960s also represented the price that modernizing eu elites had to pay for securing the support of ordinary farmers and reluctant rural notables. European cooperation presented a unique opportunity to reduce bottleneck effects linked to a backward farm sector and to generate wealth for the economy as a whole (historical setting important)