"There is no such hidden agenda and it has not been responsible politics to raise people's fears by goinground the country suggesting the contrary, " he insisted.
Microsoft and its OEM partners haven't been particularly forthcoming on how much the first round of Windows 8 tablets are going to cost, but one Lenovo executive just gave us a hint.
Just as Eurovision's organisers are planning a two-tier song contest from next year, with only those countries that survive a qualifying roundgoing through to the finals, the convention has been discussing a two-tier European Commission, in which smaller countries would lose their automatic right to nominate a commissioner.
We've been forced by the pressure of events to come round to the fact that the Northern Alliance are going to be more important than perhaps we wanted three or four weeks ago.