Unsurprisingly, then, regional disparities in income are much greater across the enlarged EU’s countries than across the US states. In 2005, average income disparities were twice as high within the then-EU-25 as within the American states.
我们不该感到惊讶，扩大了的欧盟的地区收入差异欧盟相比美国各州要大得多。在2005年，当时欧盟25国的平均收入差异是美国各州的两倍。但是在过去12年间平均收入差异已经降低了大约三分之一。而在欧盟15国，地区间收入水平的接近同样也比国家间收入水平的接近要缓慢得多。