EU Enlargement, the CAP and the Cost of Direct Payments: A Note
研究了欧盟东扩过程中，将共同农业政策的直接支付扩展到申请国所面临的成本问题，指出在现有预算限制下，只有降低现有成员国的支付水平才能实现统一支付。
Negotiations over EU enlargement have highlighted difficulties in extending the CAP – and in particular direct payments ‐ to the applicant countries, given the spending limits agreed in Berlin in 1999. This note presents estimates of direct payment costs in the Eastern European applicants. It argues that the only way all member states in an enlarged EU can receive the same level of payments is if the payments currently prevailing in the EU15 are reduced.