Overall implications of the project. Will the negotiations on the creation of a close and permanent partnership between the EU and the USA be able to take place and be concluded within the timeframe planned - in other words, by the end of next year? We are beginning to have doubts. The obstacle that, at first sight, was the hardest (the difference of opinion between France and most other countries of the EU on the cultural sector) has - in principle - been overcome. Yet the general climate...