Mr. Brendan Gleeson:

I am reluctant to attribute motivation to member states but a more precise summary of the German position is that it is prepared to give more but believes it would be required to give an unfair proportion of additional funding. That is a more precise and, no doubt, inadequate explanation of its reasoning. I am unsure whether its Presidency is a factor but it is a significant net beneficiary and would have to give substantially more money to make this happen. Those are some of the considerations but I do not speak for the Germans.