Han sagde, at vi gør det, men tilføjede derefter, at det ikke bliver for enhver pris. Og det er naturligvis en hentydning til den europæiske dagsorden og til spørgsmålet om, hvordan vi kan bringe vores synspunkter ind i WTO-forhandlingerne.
Commissioner Lamy remarked that we were, so to speak, passing from the technical stage to the political stage of the negotiating process, since officials had, in December, come to a sort of agreement as to how negotiations were to be proceeded with, although it is still not yet clear how the political negotiators can actually put that into an active working calendar.