The European Commission is at the center of the European Union's political system. Within
its five-year terms each Commission proposes up to 2000 binding legal acts and therefore …

Five years ago I could not have imagined writing a book on agencies. From my studies I
remembered the topic of agencies as being just as about the most boring subjects one could …

For large parts of its history, European integration has been an elite-driven project.
Consecutive transfers of political powers to the supranational level and the resulting policy …

Ukraine has a rich and wide range of opportunities to become one of the leading exporters
of food products. To realize these opportunities, it is important to introduce a strict system of …

Europe's trade policies matter in global politics. Despite the recent focus on Brazil, India, and
particularly China, the European Union remains the world's largest market and trader …

In recent decades, Canada's agricultural industry, one of the world's largest, has had to
adjust to global trade developments such as the North American Free Trade Agreement …

Trade in Food surveys and explores the evolution of the European Community's regulation
of food within the broader framework set out by the WTO Agreements. Its main purpose is to …

Food policy has been a key part of the British welfare state. Since the post-war period it has
undergone enormous ideational and institutional change, mostly through periods of crisis …

English summary: Since the end of the last decade, the precautionary principle has become
the central principle of European health and environmental protection law. The principle …

This book demonstrates how the Thalidomide catastrophe of the 1960s and the BSE crisis of
the 1990s led to regulatory regimes for pharmaceuticals and foodstuffs in Europe. However …