ABSTRACT
The Treaty of Rome (1957), the European Union's (EU) constitutional chart, makes the economic and political unification of the old continent its target. According to the general theory of economic integration, at both the regional and the international level, stability of the whole presupposes the adjustment of its components. Cohesion of the EU, in a context of stability, presupposes the existence of mechanisms that absorb the regional disparities or inequalities in the short term and simultaneously promote the structural adjustment in the long term. For whatever reason, the CAP has remained the only existing common European policy. The stability of European agricultural markets is achieved not only when agricultural issues concerning member countries are taken into account but also when non-agricultural issues are taken into consideration. In recent years, however, progressive, stable and radical change in European policy has come about resulting in the gradual abandonment of the goals of stability and cohesion in the large internal market.
