How to ensure the social, environmental and economic sustainability of the EU agri-food sector with future enlargement? - Related links

European Commission

• Commission adopts 2023 Enlargement package, recommends to open negotiations with Ukraine and Moldova, to grant candidate status to Georgia and to open accession negotiations with BiH, once the necessary degree of compliance is achieved
• European Commission webpage Agriculture in EU enlargement.
• European Commission webpage Agriculture in the enlargement countries.
• European Commission, Directorate-General for Agriculture and Rural Development: Agriculture and enlargement, Publications Office (2012)
• EPRS (European Parliamentary Research Service) briefing on "The consequences of enlargement for EU agriculture" (2001)

Think tank/academic articles

• EPRS (European Parliamentary Research Service): Enlargement policy: Reforms and challenges ahead (2023)
• EPRS (European Parliamentary Research Service): EU-Ukraine 2035 Strategic foresight analysis on the future of the EU and Ukraine (2023) Galindo, G. (2024) in: the Parliament - pages 39-41. Farm Rewire: experts say Ukraine has the potential to herald a new era of agricultural sustainability. Link: MYEBOOK - The Parliament Magazine Issue 567 | January 2024
• EPRS (European Parliamentary Research Service): Russia's war on Ukraine: EU-Ukraine trade in agri-food products (2022)
• EPRS (European Parliamentary Research Service): Supporting Ukraine's EU accession process (2022)
• Dimitrijević, M.; Veselinović, P. & Ristić, L. (2023) State and perspectives of agriculture development in the Western Balkan countries. Published in the journal 'International Review'
• Michael Emerson, International Center for Defense and Security (ICDS)- Article: the Potential Impact of Ukrainian Accession on the EU’s Budget – and the Importance of Control Valves (2023)
• Mousseau F. and Devillers E., War and theft. The takeover of Ukraine’s agricultural land, Oakland Institute, 2023.
• Rudloff, B. (2022) Agriculture: Customary long-term accession model possible after improvement of competitive structure. Article in Ukraine’s possible EU accession and its consequences for the German Institute for International Security Affairs (SWP).  
• Csaki, C. & Jambor, A. (2013) Impacts of the EU Enlargements on the New Member States Agriculture. Corvinus University of Budapest.  

Stakeholder articles

• CEE Bankwatch & ecoaction (2022) Food security for all. Agribusiness in Ukraine in the after-war green reconstruction. 
• Ecoaction (2021) Research into impacts of agricultural land concentration on Ukrainian environment and society
• Ecoaction (2021) Taking stock of the global land rush. 

Press articles

• O'Carroll, L. (2023) Article: As Ukraine and others queue to join, is EU ready for enlargement? | European Union | The Guardian
• Dahm, J. (2023) Article: Berlin sends new agriculture envoy to help Western Balkans with EU accession – Euractiv
• Packroff, J. & Griera, M. (2023) Article, second half of the article: Don’t touch my money: Rich regions concerned by perspective of EU enlargement – Euractiv
• Dahm, J. (2023) Article: German farmers: Ukraine membership would spell end of EU farming system- Euractiv
• Dahm, J. (2023) Article: Germany wants EU to prepare farm funds for enlargement-  Euractiv
• Fortuna, G. (2023) Article: Ukraine’s EU membership will trigger a rewriting of CAP, says Kyiv official - Euractiv