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This paper describes the development of the negotiations over the EU's Agenda 2000 program. The authors examine the extent to which net contributions to the EU budget and narrow national interests dominated the negotiations, at the expense of the original aims of the reforms, namely to prepare the EU for enlargement and for the next round of WTO negotiations. They conclude that there are grounds to suspect that the reforms proposed in the 2000 EU Berlin Summit are less than satisfactory.