To criticise the minor amendments made to the Pact by the Council, as the rapporteur does – and this places him alongside the most hard-line critics of those amendments – is, in my view, to overlook the wider picture in Europe and the EU’ s economic and social problems.
. Señor Trichet, señor Almunia, Señorías, la historia del euro y del Banco Central Europeo es un éxito indudable.