Han vil være bekendt med, at drøftelserne af Kommissionens ændrede forslag først blev genoptaget i september. så jeg håber, at han forstår, at det for indeværende er for tidligt at give et endeligt svar på spørgsmålet på Rådets vegne.
It would simply be disingenuous if I were to suggest that this does not present a very considerable reputational risk to the European Union, not least in the way that this failure to secure a statement of assurance for the eleventh year running has been presented in newspapers in a number of countries across the European Union, rather than get into a ‘ who is right, who is wrong ’ argument.