AN ASSESSMENT ON EUROPEAN SUGAR POLICY
Abstract
Sugar policy which involved in Common Agricultural Policy of European
Union, since establishing community, it has been huge burden on union budget.
This burden stems from costly sugar policy is allocated among citizens of member
states who pay taxes to finance union budget, however large farm owners and
relatively least developed countries such as ACP, Western Balkans countries
make use of sugar policy of European Union. Since the early years of European
Union, more importance has been given to Common Agricultural policy. They use
several financal funds which burden on European budget like other policies. In
this article, we investigate definition of sugar, and its historical aspects, problems
of sugar sector, solutions and future reform scenarios. Also, this study is useful to
illustrate how Turkey benefit from this policy on the eve of its accession of
European Union.
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Details
Primary Language
English
Subjects
Business Administration
Journal Section
Research Article
Authors
Hasan Gül
This is me
Publication Date
January 26, 2012
Submission Date
January 26, 2012
Acceptance Date
-
Published in Issue
Year 2007 Volume: 57 Number: 2