Negociaciones Unión Europea-mercosur: la Política Agrícola Común (PAC) europea como limitadora del proceso de negociación birregional

Abstract

This dissertation research intends to study the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) of the European Union. This dissertation aims to study its history, funding, structure and political importance, and in this way, once such processes are defined, to analyze the historic free trade negotiations between the EU and MERCOSUR. The study of these negotiations allows for the observation of the conflicting positions and their current status, weighing the arguments put forward by both blocs, showing, from the Latin American side, a bitter criticism of the agricultural protectionism of the old continent, and from the European side, criticism of the industrial protectionism and impeded access to public contracts of MERCOSUR countries. In order to do this, the economic sectors will be studied by blocks, comparing productive sectors and exports within the European Union and MERCOSUR, in an attempt to decipher the comparative importance of the agricultural sector and its economic weight both in the EU and MERCOSUR. Thus, at the end of the project, the items placed on the table shall be examined, to specify how and why, the PAC acts as a limiting agent in not reaching an effective free trade agreement between the European Union and its partner in the Southern Cone.