Den 11. september, hr. formand, meget få dage senere, blev vi klar over, at vi var kommet for sent, dramatisk for sent, og at problemet brød løs, ikke i EU, men i USA, på en endnu mere iøjnefaldende måde - ikke dramatisk, for det er altid dramatisk - end vi har oplevet det her.
On the 11th, Mr President, very soon afterwards, we realised that we had arrived late, dramatically late, and that the problem had exploded, not in the European Union, but in the United States, in an even more spectacular way - not dramatic, since it is always dramatic - than we have experienced here.