The majority of the EU's political influence comes through its ability to regulate the behavior of states and firms. Unlike national governments, it has relatively small fiscal resources that amount to just over 1% of the GDP of the EU countries. That said, the EU does have two large pots of money, and they are the subject of this chapter. The largest is also one of the oldest of all the European integration projects, the CAP. Between 2000 and 2006, agricultural spending will average 42.5 billion euros per year (in 1999 prices), of which about 38 billion will fall under the CAP and the other 4.5 billion in rural development programs. About 35 euros out of every 100 earned by EU farmers comes in some form of aid financed by taxpayers or consumers. The second pot is almost as large, though it is not nearly as old. The EU Structural and Cohesion Funds, often referred to collectively as the structural funds, will receive over the same period about 30.4 billion euros annually.