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Enlargement and the EU budget: The battles ahead

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  • Financing the Enlargement of the European Union
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Intereconomics

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The coming enlargement of the EU is unprecedented as regards both the number of acceding countries and the wealth differentials existing between the Union's current members and the candidates. The contributors to this forum present their views on how the complex financial issues involved can be solved in a way that will enable the enlarging Union to continue to function while ensuring a fair distribution of the costs and benefits of enlargement.

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  1. See European Commission: Communication from the Commission. Information: Common Financial Framework 2004–2006 for the Accession Negotiations, SEC(2002) 102 final, 30.1.2002, Brussels.

  2. See the critical review by Rolf Caesar, Hans-Eckart Scharrer (eds.): Die Zukunft Europas im Lichte der Agenda 2000, Baden-Baden 2000.

  3. See the study by Christian Weise, Martin Banse, Wolfgang Bode, Barbara Lippert, Ferdinand Nölle, Stefan Tangermann: Reformbedarf bei den EU-Politiken im Zuge der Osterweiterung der EU, Studie für das Bundesministerium der Finanzen, Berlin/Göttingen, Mai 2001 to be published as “Die Finanzierung der Osterweiterung” in spring 2002 by Nomos Publications.

  4. European Commission: Unity, solidarity, diversity for Europe, its people and its territory. Second report on economic and social cohesion, Brussels 2001, p. 121.

  5. See Michel Barnier: Ansprache auf der Konferenz «Zehn Jahre europäische Strukturfonds in Ostdeutschland und deren Perspektiven im Hinblick auf die Erweiterung”, Magdeburg, 18 Oktober 2001.

  6. See for a more detailed analysis of the phasing out of the direct payments: Christian Weise et al., op. cit., Barbara Lippert, Ferdinand Nölle, Stefan Tangermann: Reformbedarf bei den EU-Politiken im Zuge der Osterweiterung der EU, Studie für das Bundesministerium der Finanzen, Berlin/Göttingen, Mai 2001 to be published as “Die Finanzierung der Osterweiterung” in spring 2002 by Nomos Publications.

  7. see: European Commission: Unity, solidarity, diversity …, op. cit. for Europe, its people and its territory. Second report on economic and social cohesion, Brussels 2001, p 121.

  8. Ibid. see: European Commission: Unity, solidarity, diversity …, op cit. for Europe, its people and its territory. Second report on economic and social cohesion, Brussels 2001, p. 121.

  9. The Spanish government already referred to that point in a memorandum, published in April 2001.

  10. See European Commission: First progress report on economic and social cohesion, Brussels, January 2002.

  11. See Barbara Lippert, Wolfgang Bode: Die Erweiterung und das EU-Budget—Reformoptionen und ihre politische Durchsetzbarkeit, in: integration, Vol. 4, 2001, pp. 369–389.

  12. See European Council: Presidential conclusions, Lisbon European Council, 23 and 24 March 2000.

  13. Cf. Christian Weise et al., op. cit., Wolfgang Bode, Barbara Lippert, Ferdinand Nölle, Stefan Tangermann: Reformbedarf bei den EU-Politiken im Zuge der Osterweiterung der EU, Studie für das Bundesministerium der Finanzen, Berlin/Göttingen, Mai 2001 to be published as “Die Finanzierung der Osterweiterung” in spring 2002 by Nomos Publications. on the reform scenarios and their financial implications.

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    Barbara Lippert & Wolfgang Bode

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This article is part of the project “Membership of Central and Eastern European Countries in the EU” funded by the Otto Wolff-Stiftung, Cologne.

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Lippert, B., Bode, W. Enlargement and the EU budget: The battles ahead. Intereconomics 37, 68–71 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02930152

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