Dès le départ, on nous a fait comprendre que cette proposition devait être adoptée, quoi qu’il arrive, pour la fin de cette année. Ce simple fait signifiait qu’un travail véritablement approfondi et crédible était presque infaisable.
From the word ‘go’, we were given to understand that this proposal had to go through, come what may, by the end of the year; this alone meant that really credible and comprehensive work on it was scarcely feasible, and it is obvious that the intention was that there should not be any!
