External shocks, policy spillovers, and veto players : (post) exceptionalist Common Agricultural Policy and the case of the 2023-2027 reform

Lovec, Marko (author), Rac, Ilona (author), Erjavec, Emil (author)

External shocks and policy spillovers have facilitated a gradual shift away from the exceptionalism (exclusive role of agricultural interests) in the EU Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). This article argues that post-Lisbon decision-making rules and procedures, against some of the expectations, slowed this process. First, the parallel veto-based negotiations on the bloc’s finances gave status quo actors the opportunity to influence the CAP indirectly (by blocking the redistribution of CAP funds) and directly (through package deals). Second, the co-decision procedure allowed the ministers of agriculture and the European Parliament’s Committee of agriculture to change the proposals of the more reform-minded Commission more easily. The argument is supported by the case of the CAP 2023–2027 reform, which resulted in limited changes given the Brexit-related cut in CAP funding (external shock) and the inclusion of environmental targets as part of the European Green Deal (policy spillover effects).

• Language: English
• Keywords: CAP, post-exceptionalism, decision-making rules and procedures, multiannual financing framework, co-decision, external shock, policy spillover
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: FDV - Faculty of Social Sciences; BF - Biotechnical Faculty
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2024
• Number of pages: Str. 433–453
• Numbering: Vol. 46, no. 4
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-153498
• UDC: 338.43.02:061.1EU
• ISSN on article: 0703-6337
• DOI: 10.1080/07036337.2023.2300366
• COBISS.SI-ID: 180352003
• Publication date in RUL: 10.01.2024

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Journal of European integration = Revue d'intégration européenne
• Shortened title: Rev. intégr. eur.
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis
• ISSN: 0703-6337
• COBISS.SI-ID: 512255769

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Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: Evropska unija, kmetijska politika