Critically examine the European Union’s efforts to reform the Common Agricultural Policy from the 1980s on. Explain why some reforms have been far from optimal from an economic perspective and use the practice assignment to do so.

International Relations – Economics in the EU: Critically examine the European Union’s efforts to reform the Common Agricultural Policy from the 1980s on. Explain why some reforms have been far from optimal from an economic perspective and use the practice assignment to do so. For those who are writing a research paper on this: you may also choose to focus on recent developments and explain in what direction you believe that the Common Agricultural Policy should develop in the future.