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On 20 November, the financial implications of enlargement were discussed in a Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) debate

On 18 November, EU Foreign Ministers agreed to set 1 May 2004 as the date for enlargement.

The foreign ministers from the 15 EU Member States and 10 accession candidates are meeting on Brussels on 18 November to discuss the possibility of increasing the funds for enlargement and postponing the accession date to 1 May 2004.

The 15 EU Foreign Ministers are likely to set 1 May 2004 as the date for enlargement at their meeting in Brussels on 18 November.

The Commission has proposed new road maps and increased financial assistance to help Bulgaria and Romania achieve their objective of joining the EU in 2007.

The Commission has proposed funding for each of the EU institutions to finance additional administrative posts necessary for enlargement.

Romania concluded EU accession talks on telecommunications and customs union on 8 November, while Hungary clashed with the EU in membership negotiations over state aid to foreign companies.

The European Parliament adopted a resolution on 7 November, supporting the main principles of the Commission's proposal for the mid-term review of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP).

A motion for a resolution on CAP reform, to be discussed by the European Parliament at its Brussels plenary session on 6 November, recognises the need for farm policy reform in the context of enlargement.

The Finance Ministers of the 15 Member States and 13 candidate countries concluded at their meeting in Brussels on 5 November that many candidates have made only modest progress in terms of real convergence.

The meeting of EU and candidate countries' Economic and Financial Ministers on 5 November will focus on the 2002 pre-accession economic programmes and the macroeconomic and financial sector stability of the candidate countries.

The candidate countries' leaders, who were presented the financial framework for enlargement in Copenhagen on 28 October, said they were intent on getting better terms for their EU membership.

The candidate countries' leaders are meeting with the Danish Prime Minister Rasmussen in Copenhagen on 28 October to kick off the final lap of accession negotiations after the Brussels Summit removed the last obstacles to EU enlargement.

The Brussels Summit is set to approve EU enlargement talks with 10 candidate countries after the French President Jacques Chirac and the German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder reached a deal to freeze farm spending from 2007.

The Brussels Summit has ended with an agreement on the financial aspects of the enlargement of the EU to 10 new countries by 2004.

How to finance Eastern Enlargement of the EU This paper analyses the consequences of the planned enlargement on the EU budget for the years 2007 and 2013. It concentrates on the EU's Common Agricultural Policy and Structural Policy and calculates the …

The debate on the financing of enlargement, due to take place at the special EU enlargement Summit in Brussels on 24 and 25 October, takes a new turn as France demands that all funding issues should be renegotiated. The French President Jacques Chirac and the German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder are meeting ahead of the Summit to try to resolve the dispute which threatens to delay EU enlargement if no agreement is reached on farm subsidies and regional aid.

The 15 EU Finance Ministers, meeting for the ECOFIN Council in Luxembourg on 8 October, will discuss the budgetary and financial aspects of enlargement.

The EU Foreign Ministers have failed to agree on a deal that would allow all candidate countries to receive more money than they pay into the EU budget after enlargement. The four biggest net recipients of EU funds - Greece, Ireland, Portugal and Spain - opposed proposals to pay an advancement from Structural and Cohesion Funds to the new Member States.

Slovenia and the EU: The First Shall Be Last Slovenia has always been a front-runner to enter the EU. But in the race for EU money, the last shall be first--and the Slovenian government is beginning to ask how worthwhile membership actually is. This is …

Enlargement Commissioner Günter Verheugen has reassured the candidate countries that none of them would join the EU as net contributor to the EU budget.

The first official calculation of the cost of enlargement, submitted by the Commission to the Member States, comes short of the candidate countries' expectations. According to the Commission's working paper, Cyprus, Malta, Slovenia, Hungary, the Czech Republic, and even Slovakia could become net contributors to the EU budget already in the first year of their membership, in 2004.

The German Chancellor, Gerhard Schröder, has warned at a meeting with his Polish counterpart, Leszek Miller, that extending the full EU subsidies to the candidate countries would be impossible to finance.

The Foreign Ministers of the 15 EU Member States have agreed to postpone the divisive discussion of farm subsidies to the future members until the autumn.