However, everyone knows, or ought to know, that if this project had been submitted directly to the people of the Member States and not merely to members of the national parliaments, the document concerned would, in all probability, have been rejected much more widely.
Mais chacun sait, ou devrait savoir, que si ce projet avait été soumis directement aux peuples des États membres et non aux seuls parlementaires, le rejet de ce texte, selon toute vraisemblance, aurait été beaucoup plus large.