ABSTRACT
It was almost inevitable that with enlargement policy development in the EC would become more difficult. The new members would have different policy concerns and look for Community action in different areas. The interest of Britain and Ireland in regional policy and the dislike of the three new members to the common fisheries policy rushed through by the Six in 1972 have already been mentioned. In the 1980s the accession of three Southern European states meant that Mediterranean products such as olive oil and citrus fruits would become a greater bone of contention, as well as raising in a more pronounced form the question of regional disparity and the issue of the redistribution of Community resources from the richer north to the poorer south.
