Le président de la Commission a accepté les nominations des gouvernements, mais il a placé sa confiance en ses commissaires car lui, et lui seul, est le garant du programme: si M. Barroso est le chef d’orchestre, comme M. Cohn-Bendit le dit, c’est lui qui doit accorder les instruments et nous dire si les musiciens savent jouer.
The President of the Commission has accepted the governments’ nominations, but he has put his trust in his Commissioners because he, and he alone, is the guarantor of the programme: if Mr Barroso is the conductor of the orchestra, as Mr Cohn-Bendit says, it is he who must tune the instruments and tell us whether the musicians know how to play.