Mais de grâce, ne me demandez pas de quel ensemble de procédures on va entourer ce groupe, car ainsi il s'enlisera d'une certaine façon, et sera privé de l'indépendance nécessaire.
But please, do not ask about the group's precise procedures, for it will get bogged down in this and will lose its necessary independence.
Faute de quoi, le processus, dans son ensemble, s'enlisera.
Otherwise the whole process will be bogged down in the mire.
Si la majorité ne devient pas la règle, le processus de prise de décision s'enlisera immanquablement, comme vient de le faire remarquer si justement M. Prodi.
If majority voting does not become the general rule then decision-making will become irretrievably deadlocked, as Mr Prodi rightly commented a moment ago.
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