Nous sommes des partisans convaincus d’un Conseil efficace et transparent exerçant les pouvoirs que lui attribuent actuellement les Traités, mais nous ne pouvons pas nier que dernièrement, le modèle dont nous nous sommes inspirés ces dernières années, de rôle d’orientation politique - qui est certainement indispensable pour le progrès de l’Union - est boiteux et qu’il doit être remodelé en fonction de la croissance et des transformations globales de nos institutions.
We are firm believers in an effective, transparent Council exercising all the powers currently conferred on it by the Treaties, but we certainly cannot deny that the model we have been following in recent years, in which the Council has the role of laying down political guidelines – which is certainly essential for the Union’s progress – has been struggling recently and may well need to be adapted and brought into line with growth and with the global changes which have taken place in our institutions themselves.