单项选择题

Questions 23 and 24 are based on the following news. At the end of the news item, you will be given 10 seconds to answer the questions.
Now listen to the news.
We can infer from the news item that ______.

A. the new deal will be signed up by all EU members
B. all EU members promised to balance their budgets
C. France and Germany might implement the deal in advance
D. Germany and France hope to sign the deal anyway