Si l'importance politique d'un tel evenement, aux racines memes de la culture et de l'idee de democratie associees a l'image de l'Europe, n'echappait a personne, il etait clair egalement que certaines regions mediterraneennes auSud de la France, en Italie et en Grece se trouveraient confrontees a une concurrence redoutable pour des productions agricoles sensibles/.
While the political importance of such an event, recalling as it does the very roots of European culture and democracy associated with the image of Europe, was lost on no-one, it was also clear that some Mediterranean regions in the South of France, in Italy and in Greece would come up against fierce competition for sensitive agricultural products.