"EU Law is a very important system which contains about a hundred directives and also takes into account a series of infractions, some of which are quite serious. In Europe, we are in the last place in the reception of these directives," said European Affairs Minister Emma Bonino on Radio Radicale. "The majority and the opposition found an agreement on everything," said Bonino at the Lower House session on EU Law. "Everyone worked very hard. But there has been some rigidity on both sides which is frankly not justifiable. All morning, the opposition kept referring to a small comma on right of asylum which actually fell through in the Balance Commission's vote. So we basically debated for hours on something which no longer exists and which says that in the reception of the directive ordained by Berlusconi's government on the right to asylum, it was requested to pay special attention to article 10 of the Constitution. This is an instruction which could also be considered to be rather pleonastic in that it continuously keeps referring to the Constitution. This reference to article 10 of the Constitution basically became the seed of discord which put the voting at risk and infringe on the bipartisan spirit which has always made the majority and the opposition vote together on EU Law."