The European model of agriculture relies on the middle, usually typically family, farm. Romania does not fit this model, having an unsuitable agricultural structure for a modern European state. The objective of this paper is to emphasize the differences between the European model of agriculture and the Romanian agriculture. In Romania, the subsistence agriculture (many micro-farms, producing for self-consumption) and the agro-industrial agriculture (farms of hundreds even thousands of hectares,

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... market oriented, relatively advanced), give a dual character to this important economic branch. The middle level agriculture is underdeveloped and uses only a small percent of the agricultural area. The research method is the analysis of data; the study of the real convergence between the Romanian and the European Union's agriculture implies a SWOT analysis.The main results reveal that the reform in the Romanian agriculture should include, among its priorities, the solving of the structural problem of the Romanian village, the development of the middle level agriculture being an important aim. The implementation of the community regulations has to be accompanied by own development programs for the rural space and for the agro-food sector. Romania has to define its own strategy in order to be integrated in the community policy, strategy which must be sustained in the debates regarding the reform of the Common Agricultural Policy, the target being the development of the Romanian agriculture.