EUROPEAN AGRIBUSINESS AND BULGARIAN REALITIES

Abstract

Bulgaria's membership in the European Union led to a major change in Bulgarian agribusiness, which continues. The object of research of the present article is the application of the European agrarian policies in Bulgaria, and the subject is related to their result. The main goal of the work is to prove the need for a modern geographic policy. It must be related to the policies of the European Union, but first of all, it must be subordinated to the Bulgarian national interests. In connection with the development of the article, the methods that were used were systematic analysis, synthesis, comparative, and others.

The main direction of the analysis is the divergence (lag) between European and Bulgarian agribusiness. One of the reasons is the radically changed geographical position of Bulgaria upon membership in the European Union compared to membership in the former CMEA. The second line of analysis concerns the disintegration of the old geographical structure of Bulgarian agribusiness and the delayed creation of a new modern structure under the current conditions. A big challenge that was missing in the past is depopulation, the new geography of consumption (consumption). The second challenge, which is becoming more and more relevant, is the change in the Bulgarian nature.

A major setback with negative economic and social consequences is the rejection of the development of suburban agriculture. With the continued concentration of population in fewer and fewer large cities, this problem is exacerbated. Bulgarian agribusiness does not use the possibilities of regionalization as the main geographical method.