You may know that I had the opportunity to meet with my European Union counterpart, Trade Commissioner Karel De Gucht, most recently this past week, but earlier in December, as part of a stock-taking exercise to determine whether the progress we had made was the basis on which to go forward.
Vous le savez sans doute, la semaine passée et en décembre dernier, j'ai eu l'occasion de rencontrer mon homologue de l'Union européenne, le commissaire Karel De Gucht, pour déterminer si les avancés enregistrées allaient nous permettre de continuer le processus.