Speaking in an interview for European Navigator in February 2008, Nicole Fontaine, who became Parliament's President in the aftermath of the crisis in 1999, said the affair demonstrated that the European Parliament had achieved an "extraordinary political maturity".
Tā, piemēram, Komisija vēlāk veica reformas, kuru rezultātā 2002. gadā tika pieņemta jauna finanšu regula.