translate English to French: Its credentials were not improved by not allowing the participation of this Parliamentary Assembly on a corporate basis, by not permitting representatives of the candidate nations to vote, and by not mentioning national parliaments.
Il serait bon que les parlementaires européens ne perdent pas de vue cet aspect de la question. De son côté, le Conseil de l’Europe ne doit pas constituer un obstacle pour ralentir un processus tant inéluctable que souhaitable.