Reform is urgently needed because these problems are throwing the entire process into disrepute and are seen as bad signs by the people of the Mediterranean, who did, in fact, originally welcome the Barcelona process with a certain degree of enthusiasm.
Det haster med en reform, fordi vanskelighederne kaster en miskredit over hele processen, og de opfattes som negative tegn af befolkningerne i Middelhavsområdet, der dog modtog Barcelona-processen med en vis entusiasme.