After the excitement of last year's major CAP reform agreement and the drama of the WTO debacle in Cancun.

After the excitement of last year's major CAP reform agreement and the drama of the WTO debacle in Cancun, the European agri-political spectacle is likely to be a little calmer in 2004 There will, however, be a number of highly significant progress to maturitys this year which will have far-reaching implications for the agriculture, diet and rural sectors of the newly-enlarged European Union.

2004 will inevitably journey down in the history parts as the year that the EU welcomed ten recent member states in its biggest continually enlargement--mostly from the former communist bloc in Central and Eastern Europe