In the light of the entrance into the EU, implementation of uniform practices according to the Acquis grew in importance in the new member countries. On the agricultural front, this meant securing comparability of production between the various member countries (Barry 2001; Dunn 2004, 2005). The EU, achieving the status of a “suprastate,” worked through the premises of legitimizing power through vertical encompassment (Gupta and Ferguson 2005), especially for new member countries that first had to fulfill requirements in areas of law, economy and democracy in order to geopolitically return to Europe. In the early phase of membership, reaching out to the rural population and informing them about EU requirements, standards and options for funding was required of the state, and via the state, of all municipal administrations. The goals were to further the restructurings of the agricultural sector and encourage people working the land to become EU-minded farmers. In this way, Lithuania was to become competitive on the agricultural front and eventually match the production of the old EU member countries. This process of creating Europe inside the expanded territory of the union was referred to as “Europe-building” (Bellier and Wilson 2000). If the EU was thus successfully being built in every corner of the union, every region and every village would ideally become a metonym of the EU. Hence, the EU would be recognizable everywhere inside its own territory.