Rightly, there is concern that the merging of the existing programmes, PHARE, ISPA and SAPARD, to form a single instrument, IPA, will make it impossible to meet the specific requirements of the new candidate countries, given the danger that the flexible arrangements for allocating funding to the proposed ‘components’ of the IPA might work to the detriment of the rural economy, thereby placing the rural population at an even greater disadvantage.
Rightly, there is concern that the merging of the existing programmes, PHARE, ISPA and SAPARD, to form a single instrument, IPA, will make it impossible to meet the specific requirements of the new candidate countries, given the danger that the flexible arrangements for allocating funding to the proposed ‘components’ of the IPA might work to the detriment of the rural economy, thereby placing the rural population at an even greater disadvantage.