"The commission deeply regrets that these proposals do not follow the spirit of the stability and growth pact," Pedro Solbes, the monetary affairs commissioner, said at a news conference here after a nine-hour meeting of finance ministers.
The commission added, "We regret that this avenue has not been pursued".
However, the commission added its regret that the Tories refused to agree to interviews and that Lord Ashcroft had destroyed documents relating to the ownership of the company.
The commission expressed "profound regret" that in the aftermath of the banking crisis the FSA had not imposed "fitting sanctions for those most responsible in a manner which might serve as a suitable deterrent for the next crisis".
She told the commission that she regretted those comments, because at the time she was not aware of intelligence, developed in the late 1990's, that some terrorists were thinking of using airplanes as guided missiles.
In a statement tonight, the commission chairman Michael O'Higgins expressed "regret" at Pickles' decision but sought to get on the record it had been moving towards the kinds of reforms Pickles has now expedited.
Are you the Edith Piaf of the commission – 'Nothing, nothing, I regret nothing' – or are you going to recant these views and formally also apologise to those people that you misled?
In a flourish that the commission secretary now says he regrets, the letter also said that the statue made Dr. King look "confrontational".
In a subsequent conversation later that year, Benedict "explicitly regretted that the commission had not been set up," Cardinal Schönborn said.
Mulkearns told the commission he was sorry and regretted not dealing with paedophile priests properly, saying he was trying to protect the church's reputation and stop further offending.
