At man ikke gik så vidt som til at fastslå, at Fællesskabet var uopløseligt, skyldes, at Fællesskabet — som led i den gradvise integrationsproces — kun er en, om end vigtig, etape på vejen mod en europæisk union.
They did not go as far as to say that the Community was 'indissoluble' because in the context of the gradual process of integration the Community was only a step»—an important step certainly, but by no means the final one—on the road towards European union.