This upset the balance of the Franco-German axis around which the EU as a whole had long turned. To avoid negative political consequences, Germany agreed to be underrepresented in weighted voting on EU matters – an imbalance in its own right that was not substantially corrected until the Lisbon Treaty entered into effect in 2009.
这破坏了长期作为欧盟整体支柱的法德轴心。为了避免消极的整治结果，德国同意削减其在欧盟事务上的投票权重，这一不平衡直到2009年里斯本条约（Lisbon Treaty）生效后才得到纠正。