Nobody is arguing that the Commission is responsible for the deal’s unhappy end – only that it should have rallied support for it. The significance of the merger’s collapse is now becoming clear to observers across Europe, especially in Germany, where the media have been extremely critical of how “negative politics” sealed the proposed merger’s fate.
没有人认为欧洲委员会应当对交易不圆满的结果负责，只是说它本来应当给予相应的支持。欧洲各国（特别是德国）观察家现在已经意识到合并失败将会产生的重大后果。德国媒体一直对“消极政治”如何决定合并提案的命运持有极端批评的态度。