Australia and the European Union: conflict, competition or engagement in agricultural and agri-food trade?

EU–Australia relations: a strategic partnership in all but name?

“…This condemnation has been evident among the policymaking community and the media since the exclusion of Australian primary agricultural goods upon British accession to the then European Community (EC) in 1973. Such a view was consistent with a widespread perception of the EU as a type of bully in the global trading playground (Murray 2005;Murray and Zolin 2012). This perception came about for three reasons in particular.…”

“…Trenchant criticism consistently emanated from Canberra regarding the CAP's distortion of world markets from the 1960s onwards (Benvenuti and Murray 2013;Groom 1992;Murray and Zolin 2012). This condemnation has been evident among the policymaking community and the media since the exclusion of Australian primary agricultural goods upon British accession to the then European Community (EC) in 1973.…”

Australia and the EU: Partners in the New Trade Agenda

“…Australia's agricultural producers have found alternative export destinations, and are generally no longer dependent on the EU, as Murray and Zolin (2012) have demonstrated.…”

Re-Examining EU Policies from a Global Perspective

“…The trend for protectionism during and after the global economic crisis is accompanied at the present moment by the context of a growing recognition that agricultural and agri-food protectionism has become an unaffordable luxury for developed countries -a fact accepted with considerable reluctance in parts of the EU even now, as suggested by Murray and Zolin (2012).…”