European Union common agricultural policies: a comparative analysis for the 2007-2013 and 2014-2020

Abstract

European Union farm policy - known as the common agricultural policy - ensures adequate European food production goes hand in hand with economically viable rural communities and action on environmental challenges such as climate change, water management, bio energy and biodiversity. Over the last two decades of the Common Agricultural Policy has been repeatedly reorganized substantially, depending on the emerging issues related to food quality and safety, the environment and territorial balance, as well as the changing economic needs of the European Union. In view of this, the currant Common Agricultural Policy is a joint system that allows the policy to deal with the sustainability and competitiveness of related rural and agricultural issues in the European Union. Lithuania's European Union membership has created favourable conditions for a stable development of Lithuania's agriculture and rural life.