Taj potez, prema riječima Daniela Grosa, direktora Centra za studije evropske politike, bio je "šamar u lice Komisiji, koja bi inače trebala obavljati taj posao" sama od sebe.
That move, according to Daniel Gros, director of the Centre for European Policy Studies, was "a slap in the face of the Commission, which should normally be doing this kind of work" on its own.