Your pint safe in EU handsArchived 8 March 2008 at the Wayback Machine, press release by EU Vice-President Günter Verheugen, Commissioner for Enterprise and Industry, 11 September 2007: "Far from pushing Britain down the metrication road, 'Europe' has always been willing to extend the deadlines, when it discovered practical obstacles and when it realised the UK public felt things were going too far, too fast."
Your pint safe in EU handsArchived 8 March 2008 at the Wayback Machine, press release by EU Vice-President Günter Verheugen, Commissioner for Enterprise and Industry, 11 September 2007: "Far from pushing Britain down the metrication road, 'Europe' has always been willing to extend the deadlines, when it discovered practical obstacles and when it realised the UK public felt things were going too far, too fast."