Regarding the procedure, at the risk of sounding repetitive, I would like to assure the Commissioner, on behalf of the Group of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe, that all the work carried out has not been in vain. However, our citizens would misunderstand and misinterpret things entirely if
, after waiting for such a long time to put into operation the institutions relating to the Treaty of Lisbon, we did not have the patience
to wait a few more hours or even days in order to exercise the colegislative power that we ho
...[+++]ld so dear.