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Future EU Finances and Own Resources

I share that concern to some extent, but the important thing is that support from the EU through regional funding is of enormous assistance not only in helping to develop democracies but also in ensuring that they have fully functioning market economies. Such changes do not just happen, so it is laudable that the UK has led the way in the EU negotiations and has said that to make the market work as effectively in central and eastern Europe, as it does, largely, in western Europe, we should be prepared to ensure that there is assistance so that there can be full transition from Soviet-style command economies.