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et me give just one figure to illustrate that: if we factor in all the effects that the accession of Romania and Bulgaria had on
structural policy, while at the same time imagining that the countries in receipt of pre-accession aid – that is to say, the countries of the Western Balkans, Turkey and Croatia – were already members of the Community, then, were that to be the case, structural policy, under today’s rules and in the period we are in, would cost us EUR 150 billion more than it actually does, and of that sum, 63% alone – an u
...[+++]nimaginable amount of money – would be needed for Turkey.