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six Guest Editorial bv Imre Ntmelh Hungarian Agriculture at the Dawn of EU Accession Ungarische Landwirtschaft kurz vor dem EU-Bcitritt L’agriculture hongroise au temps zero de l’accession

twelve by Csubu Jansik Food industry FDI - A n integrating Force between Western and Eastern European Agri-food Sectors Les IDE dam I’agrodmentaire : une force dintkgration entre les secteurs alimentaires des pays dEurope occidengale et ortentale FDI in der N ~ g s m i # e ~ d n s t r i e - We treibende Kraft bei der Integration der ost- und westeumpiihchen Agrar. und Nahrungsmittelsektoren

eighteen b y Bemhavd BrZimmer G 1Jkich Koester Governance of the Common Agricultural Policy in the New Member States Politique agricole commune et gouvernance dam les nouveau Etats membres Dnrehfiihrung der Gemeinsamen Agrarpolitik in den neuen Mitgliedstaaten

In Forthcoming Issues Transatlantic Differences in Consumer Preferences.

European Consumers’ Acceptance of US Hormone-treated Beef.

Financial Distress with Family Farm Transfer in Six European Countries.

twenty four Parlons Graphiques bv Curry Muhon Agriculture in the Economies of the New Member States and Candidate Countries L’agriculture dans l’economie : les nouveaux pays-membres et les candidats a 1’uE Landwirtschaft in den Volkswirtschaften der nenen Mitgliedsliinder und der Beitrittskan didatenlander

twenty six b y Momku ffurtmann G Sebusrfun Scbomhwg Is Meat Processing in Central and Eastern European New Member States Competitive after EU Accession? La f?B&re viande des nouveaux pays membres d’Europe centrale et orientale sera-t-elle compktitive a p r b l’accession 1

Wird die f l e ~ h v e ~ i t e n d e Industrie la den nenen mittel- und osteurop2ischen Mitgliedstaaten nach dem EU-Beitrltt wettbewerbsfiiiig sein?

thirty two by Mutthew Gorton & Sophia Dutiidota Farm Performance, Direct Payments and EU Enlargement Performance des exploitations, paiements directs et elargissement de I’UE Wittschaftlicher Erfolg von Landwirt- schaftsbetrieben, Direktzahlungen und EU- Erweiterung

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Impact of WHO Dietary Recommendations on World Sugar Consumption, Production and Trade.

The Impact of Foot and Mouth Disease on the Price of Beef.

Time to Rethink Rural Development

thirty eight Point de w e by Christian If C R Henning G Clwe Lutacz-Lohmunn Will Enlargement Gridlock CAP Reforms? a Political Economy Perspective Se peut-iJ que 1’6largissement pamlyse la reforme de la PAC ? Un point de vue d’kconomie politique. Wird die Erweiterung die Reformen der GAP blockieren? Eine politokonomische Perspektive

forty four Summary by E ? ~ ~ ~ ~ i ~ ~ ~ ~ e C ~ i , a ~ s z ~ - L ~ z ~ u 6 .Ifantieiff 1 ’agwzi

Agri-Food Exports to the GEE&: Winners and Losers from EU Enlargement Les exportations agroalimentakes vers les pays de la C o ~ u n a u t ~ Enropeembe : les gagnants et les perdants de I’CIargissement de 1’Union Europ6enne Exporte der Agrar- und Emiihrungswirtschaft in dle MOEL: Gewinner und VerBerer der EU-Erweiterung

forty five Summary by Matthew Corton & Sophia Duuidouu Is Agriculture in the CEECs Internationally Competitive? L’agriculture des pays &Europe centrale et orientale (Peco) est-elle compktitive sur le plan international? Karin die Landwirtschaft der MOEL im jnternationalen Wettbewerb bestehen?

forty six Letters to the Editor Ur Ldszlo Vujdu

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Dear Reader,

Enlargement issue For those of us who have lived through some or all of the established order of the Cold War, the Enlargement of the European Union on May lst can truly be described as historic and momentous-I feel it symbolises the commitment to freedom, democracy and solidarity amongst all the nations of an enlarged Union. In its sheer scale alone it surpasses all previous rounds of Enlargement .

This issue of EuroChoices commemorates the Enlargement- all of the articles are on this theme-I do hope it will help to promote an informed debate on agri-food and rural resource issues within the new European Union of twenty-five member states. These issues have been very much to the fore in the accession negoti~tions, not least because of the significance of the agri-food sectors in the New Member States and also, of course, because the Common Agricultural Policy has traditionally been regarded as the cornerstone of the Ell.

I am delighted that Irnre Nemeth, Minister for Agriculture and Rural Development in Hungary, accepted our invitation to write the Guest Editorial for this issue. In his visionary article h e articulates the hopes and fears of Hungary’s agri- food sector following accession

This issue of EuroChoices commemorates the Enl~rgement ... ~1 do hope it will help to promote an ~ n f ~ ~ e d debate on agri- food and rural resource issues within the new European Union of twenty-five member states” John Davis Managing Editor

and concludes that the success in integrating agriculture into the CAP and the single market will substantially influence Hungarian public opinion in the post- accession years. His editorial is followecl by articles on, the role of Foreign Direct Investment in Central and Eastern Europe’s food industries (‘Jansikj, the implications of Enlargement for CAP governance (Brummer and Koester) and for the prospects for further CAP reforms (Henning and Latacz-Lohmannj. Gorton and Davidova look at the relative performance of the farm sector in Central and Eastern Europe and Hartmann and Schornberg ask whether meat processing industries in this region will be competitive after Enlargement. Those of us who have difficulty coming to terms with the identities and structures of the new members will welcome the Parlons Graphiques by Garry Mahon in which he compares and contrasts the economies and the significance of agriculture in the Old, New and Candidate countries. Finally-and for completeness--I have inclucled the summaries of two articles from previous issues dealing with trade and competitiveness aspects of Enlargement. I do hope you find this set of articles interesting and relevant and that you will in turn be moved to put pen to paper and submit an article or comment yourself-I very much encourage 570u to do so. Full details of the options open to you can be seen in the Submission Guidelines at: wwcv.EuroChoices .org

Finally, I would like to express my thanks to Ferenc Prig who has generously donated a valuable collection of photographs depicting the Eastern European agri-food and rural sector. Many of these are used in this issue.

Editor’s repon At a meeting of the EuroChoices Steering Group in Paris on 16“’ April I presented the Editor’s Report and I would like to share with you some of its more important details. Before doing so, however, Steering Group has asked me to remind you that the future of our new periodical will soon be entirely dependent on subscription funding and financial support from stakeholders. Please do subscribe and encourage colleagues to do so as well. Equally important will be the revenue from institutional subscribers, so please lobby your library to become a subscriber and at the same time widen the availability and awareness of our publication. Finally, I would like to record my thanks to those individuals and organisations who already, having recognised the value ofEuroChoices as an outreach medium, have been prepared to offer medium to longer term financial support for its continued development-we very much hope that others will follow suit.

A brief histoq) of EuroCboices. Not all of you will be familiar with the background t o our new publication. Briefly, the concept-and how to make it a reality-has been debated in the British and European Associations since the early 1990s. Following an agreement between the two associations in 2000 to employ Harry Ayer (former editor of US Choices) to examine the feasibility of producing EuroChoicles, and a positive assessment by Harry of the prospects for success, the Premier issue was ~ubl i shed in Spring 2001- with myself working alongside Harry as Co- editor. Following this we made two unsuccessful grant applications to the EU Commission bur

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were successful with our third application-this provided a grant of €380,000 over two years from the Sixth Framework Programme to support the development of EuroCboices. The grant ends in summer 2004 and indeed this is the last issue that can receive any support from these monies. Such a brief account, of course, greatly understates the amount of work and commitment by members of both associations devoted to the editorial and business development of EuroCboices.

Overview of the current position. Overall progress since the inception of EuroChoices has been good. Reliable authors have been willing to write for the new periodical and in the main have understood its purpose- however we do need t o widen the geographic spread of our submissions. The review process has functioned more or less smoothly and reviewers generally have also shown an awareness of the aims of the pubkation- although some still tend to apply criteria more suited to traditioiial mainst~-eam journals. I believe we have enhanced the quality and accessibility of the debate on agri-food and rural resource issues within Europe and beyond. The policy of inviting ministers to write Guest Editorials has worked well and has helped to raise our profile in member state ministrics.

Editorial management. The Editorial team continues to function smoothly and I am delighted that Csaba Csaki has joined us as a Co-editor to replace Nigel Williams. The full team is: John Davis, (Managing Editor- UK); Harry Ayer (USA); Jean-MdrC Boussard (France); Csaba Csaki (Hungary); and Ulrich Koester (Germany). We continue with our poky of double blind review for all main articles-other submissions are generally handled by myself and a Co-editor. The time taken from submission to initial editorial decision ranges from less than one month to three months, depending on the nature of the submission, topic, speed of reviewers, time of year etc. The time from

submission to a final decision on publication ranges from one to six months depending on the extent and nature of revisions, speed o f authors in responding to reviewers’ comments etc. In my experience those authors who pay careful attention to the Submission Guidelines generally have a higher probability of acceptance and have their articles published more quickly

Status of submissions. The status of submissions by country of origin is given in the table. During 2002 a total of 25 submissions was received. Of these, 20 (80%) originated in Europe (9 in the UK), 3 in the USA and 2 in OECD. In 2003 we received a total of 27 submissions. Of these, 22 (81%) originated in Europe (10 in the UK), 2 in the USA and 3 in OECD.

The origin of European submissions is quite diverse although there is some continuing imbalance in their origin; in particular, substantial under- represeIitation of southern and eastern European authors. I would particularly welcome submissions from these sources.

About 50 per cent of our submissions during the last vear

cent of articles in the last year dealt with agri-food chainbusiness issues-and the overall significance of this group has grown. But we still have relatively few articles i~red(~minantly dealing with environ~~ent, rural developnient or North-Soutli issues and virtually nothing with a southern Europe emphasis. I have been trying to encourage submissions from suitable rural sociologists but so far with relatively little success-again submissions from this source are welcom e .

I do hope you find this information helpful and that you will be encouraged to contribute to the debate in EuroChoices.

Finally, thank you to those of you who responded to the readers’ survey in the previous issue. Although the response was limited the comments were encouraging and helpful. Please let me know if there are any issues you would like to see tackled in Eu~oCho~c~s or presentatictn styles you would like to see changed.

Yours ever,

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Origin of submissions to EuroChodces

UK UWGreece USA France Ukraine UWUSA Po~tugal~SA Finland Germany GermanyiItaly Italp EU Commission OECD

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UK Net herlancls Germany France Switzerland Sweden Norway Spain O ~ C D ~ r e l a n d ~ j S A OECD USA

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2003

10 3 3 2 1 1 1 1 1 2 2

27

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