EU Finance Ministers concerned with cost of enlargement
EU finance ministers rejected the Commission's proposal for direct payments to farmers in the new Member States at their first discussion of the financial framework for enlargement on 12 February. Whilst most ministers gave their broad support to the Commission's budgetary package, several Member States insisted that the proposal phased in subsidies too fast, and that the candidate countries should not receive budgetary compensation after enlargement.
EU finance ministers rejected the Commission’s proposal for direct payments to farmers in the new Member States at their first discussion of the financial framework for enlargement on 12 February. Whilst most ministers gave their broad support to the Commission’s budgetary package, several Member States insisted that the proposal phased in subsidies too fast, and that the candidate countries should not receive budgetary compensation after enlargement.
