It succeeded. The prospect of genuine European integration on foreign affairs and defense issues was denied time and again, at each step of the successive negotiations for the Treaties of Amsterdam, Nice, the aborted constitutional project, and Lisbon.
在英国的外交手腕操弄之下，某种消磨德国理想的进程被不断推进，并最终获得了成功。完全整合欧洲外交和防务的愿望在随后于阿姆斯特丹、尼斯，废弃的欧盟宪法，以及里斯本制定的各项条约中犹如弃儿，处处不讨好。