But the latter part is a series of comments not in the report and which distort the perspective totally.  The most obvious is "The EU is confused by Robert Cooper".  He has nothing to do with writing the article.  What is he confused about?  The article or something else?  He is a highly respected source so this gives this comment some sort of importance.  

Overall, bad reporting on the whole as it distorts the picture in an extremely blatant way.