If we had failed to reach agreement there, and consider what it would have meant, if the Berlin meeting had finished with no compromise having been reached at a time when the Kosovo war was just beginning and the Commission was in a state of crisis, then Europe would have been plunged into a serious, historic crisis.
Si nous n"étions pas parvenus à un accord – et pensez ce qu"aurait signifié la conclusion du Sommet sans qu"un compromis soit atteint alors même que commençait la guerre du Kosovo et que la Commission s"enfonçait dans la crise –, l"Europe aurait été confrontée à une crise historique.