Bayerlein, Michael; Diermeier, Matthias - 2022 - This version: April 27, 2022
member states become the main recipients of EU funding, Eastern Europe has also changed from once being the most integration …-friendly region to displaying the most integration-hostile attitudes in the EU. Motivated by this empirical puzzle, we revisit the … regional subsidies go along with increasing opposition to EU integration. We can rebut this counterintuitive finding by a Diff …