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In spite of this minor progress, eleven, mainly East-Central European Member States regarded it as going too far. They showed the "yellow card", as they considered the proposal to be in contradiction to the principle of subsidiarity. As a result, the EU Commission had to review its own proposal as to whether it indeed infringes the principle of subsidiarity. The EU-Commission let it be known in the summer that it would stick to the proposal as it did not interfere with the principle of subsidiarity.
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