filling in spaces with appropriate word

Hi everyone,

Can someone help me out with this? I am doing an assignement and need to fill in the blank spaces with just ONE appropriate word. The text talks about the writing of today's date in figures. I am also adding a couple of sentences before which I have filled in so that you would get the sense of the sentence:

The French International Organisation for Standarisation has come up with a possible solution. It proposes that only numerically written dates should appear in descending order with the year first, then the month and finally the day. The drawback here is that _____ any countries seem in faviour of this idea and the majority are most unwilling to implement it.

Any Ideas??
Thank you