we have plucked
-avons cueilli
Present perfect we conjugation of pluck.
That is how we reached the figure of EUR 5.5bn and I have slightly resented the implication in some newspapers that this is a figure we have plucked out of the air and does not make any sense.
C'est de cette manière que nous avons atteint le chiffre de 5,5 milliards d'euros et j'ai quelque peu mal ressenti les insinuations publiées dans certains journaux selon lesquelles ce chiffre sortait de nulle part et n'avait aucun sens.
The demands we are making of the Council are not after all demands which we have plucked out of thin air, and I believe that it ought to be possible through skilful negotiation to secure something here, because the conditions are not after all impossible to meet.
Ce que nous demandons par exemple vis-à-vis du Conseil, ce ne sont pas des exigences dénuées de tout fondement, et je pense qu'une négociation habile devrait aussi permettre de parvenir à quelque chose, car les conditions ne sont pas irréalisables.
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