During that long and intense month of bargaining, Parliament made an effort to persuade the Council that there was more to the Union than the EAGGF and the Structural Funds, that the remaining 20% of the budget was also used to serve the Union’s objectives and that, often, it affects issues which were politically very sensitive.
Au cours de ce long et intense mois de transactions, le Parlement s'est efforcé de faire comprendre au Conseil que l'Union ne vit pas que du FEOGA et des fonds structurels et que les 20 % restants du budget servaient également aux objectifs de l'Union et qu'ils concernaient bien souvent des questions politiques très sensibles.