This was partly because the EU was not as generous toward its newest members as it had been toward new members in the past. Moreover, only fifteen years ago, eight of the ten new members had state-controlled economies, which meant that a period of painful transition toward a market economy was followed by, or overlapped with, sometimes painful reforms necessary for EU membership.
这一部分是因为欧盟对待这些国家没有象对以前加入的成员国那样慷慨。而且，仅仅在15年前，这10个新成员国中的8个还是计划经济国家，这意味着它们随后要经历一段痛苦的由计划经济向市场经济转变的时期，或交叉地，进行一些对欧盟成员国来说必要的改革。