Kauppi, Heikki; Widgrén, Mika - 2006
EU declares to provide support for the rural and poor regions of its member states. However, recent research shows that … past EU budget allocations (in EU-15) can be attributed to measures of the distribution of voting power in the Council of … Ministers deciding on the bulk of EU spending. A standard power measure alone can explain about 85% of the variance of the past …