This inward-looking backdrop of reciprocal failure to make concessions does offer some small progress on justice and home affairs, however, although it has to be said that most of this progress has been deferred until after 2004. This is not to belittle it.
Dans ce contexte fermé, de non-concessions réciproques, il faut cependant relever les légers progrès accomplis dans le domaine de la justice et des affaires intérieures. Il s'agit pour l'essentiel de progrès différés à 2004.