One country’s inflow of EU money is thus another country’s outflow – and these are grants, not loans. As a result, agreement every seven years on overall expenditures is inadequate to preclude conflict on annual budgets.
于是，一国对欧盟资金的流入便是另一国的流出——是资助，不是贷款。结果，每七年签一次总体支出协议并不足以排除年度预算冲突。