Hvis man ved anden runde i Rådet ikke støtter denne udelukkende symbolske ekstraudgift, viser det, at man ikke tager de nationale udviklingsplaner alvorligt, at de nye medlemsstater ikke har taget ved lære af fejltagelserne de fem første år, og at regeringer, der tror, at de kan løse deres egne problemer ved at holde Unionen tilbage, stadig er i flertal.
If in the second round the Council does not support this merely symbolic extra expenditure, it acknowledges that it does not take national development plans seriously, that the new Member States have failed to learn from the mistakes of the first years and that governments who believe they are able to solve their own problems by holding back on the Union are still in the majority.