Acknowledgements

The author wishes to thank the following people, for providing invaluable feedback, literature and meaningful discussions on the topics of this thesis (excluding those who expressed the wish to remain anonymous):

Laurent van DePoele

Professor

            Catholic University of Leuven

Gyla Gulash

Professor

Budapest University of Economic Sciences and Public Administration

Mihaily Högye

Professor

Budapest University of Economic Sciences and Public Administration

Jesús Antón Lopez

Economist

OECD Directorate for Food, Agriculture and Fisheries

Mr. Loek Boonekamp

Head Trade and Markets Division

OECD Directorate for Food, Agriculture and Fisheries

György Jenei,

Professor

Budapest University of Economic Sciences and Public Administration

mr. Marco Knubben,

Senior policy advisor

Corporate finance centre, Ministry of Economic Affairs

Liza Leslie MA.

Brandeis University

Dr. Aad van Mourik

Head of the Centre for European Studies

Associate professor of Economics

Dept. of Economics, Maastricht University

Mr. Imre Németh

Hungarian Minister of Agriculture

Dr. Laszo Rieger

President Agricultural Intervention Centre

Dr. Gyula Szöke

Vice president Agricultural Intervention Centre

Dr. David Varadi

Professor

Budapest University of Economic Sciences and Public Administration

Peter Bokor

Deputy director of the project office

A special thanks goes out to Ms. Liza Leslie MA, for her reviews, support and love.