ABSTRACT
Although numerous official and academic studies have been published over the last decade analysing the development and the impact of the Common Agricultural Policy in Europe, few have given more than passing attention to the relationship between agricultural policy within the Community and world market conditions. Countries which earn their livelihoods through the export of agricultural products have long protested about the limitations placed on their potential market in Europe by the mechanisms and workings of the CAP. But only in the last few years as the dynamic effects of generous agricultural support have produced not only self-sufficiency but export surpluses in one commodity after another, has the international dimension of the debate about agriculture in Europe become fully apparent.
