While some Member States argued that the conditions for triggering the mechanism were never fulfilled, others argued that it is difficult to reach a political agreement on triggering the mechanism in the absence of clear criteria and indicators to measure the pressure.
Medtem ko so nekatere države članice trdile, da pogoji za sprožitev mehanizma nikoli niso bili izpolnjeni, so druge zatrjevale, da je težko skleniti politični dogovor o sprožitvi mehanizma, če ni jasnih meril in kazalnikov za merjenje pritiska.