Rubio, E., Akhvlediani, T., & Alcidi, C. (2026, June 8). From myths to reality: Mitigating the impact of enlargement on the EU’s common budget, the CAP and cohesion policy. Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS).
Except for Ukraine, today’s candidate countries are small, and their accession would only have a limited fiscal impact on current Member States. Their combined allocations under the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) and cohesion policy would amount to EUR 9.5 billion per year, which is roughly equivalent to what Poland would receive annually under cohesion […]
Eulalia Rubio
Eulalia Rubio is senior Research Fellow on European economic affairs at the Jacques Delors Institute. Her main fields of expertise are the EU budget, EU´s budgetary policy-making and European public investment policies and strategies. She is author of numerous papers and policy reports on these topics, including various reports on behalf of the European Parliament. In […]