Since Britain had been one of the most insistent advocates of enlargement of the EU to the candidates from Central and Eastern Europe, one might have expected that the Blair government would have wished to be correspondingly generous to the new-comers in the conduct of the budgetary negotiations.
由于英国自始至终坚持吸纳中东欧国家加入欧盟，人们可能会认为布莱尔政府在预算谈判中也会对新成员国表现出相应的慷慨。