Financial assets and liabilities - Contracted undiscounted cash flows (Details) - EUR (€) € in Millions	Dec. 31, 2017	Dec. 31, 2016
Not later than one year
Financial assets and liabilities
Borrowings	€ 482	€ 555
Derivative financial instruments	2	8
Trade and other payables	1,660	1,548
Between one and two years
Financial assets and liabilities
Borrowings	481	555
Derivative financial instruments	70
Between two and five years
Financial assets and liabilities
Borrowings	2,373	4,724
Derivative financial instruments	55
Later than five years
Financial assets and liabilities
Borrowings	8,128	€ 7,100
Derivative financial instruments	€ 126

The amount of contractual undiscounted cash flows in relation to borrowings including interest payable.

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The amount of contractual undiscounted cash flows in relation to derivative financial liabilities. [Refer: Derivative financial liabilities]

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Line items represent concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes of the table.

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The amount of contractual undiscounted cash flows in relation to trade and other payables. [Refer: Trade and other payables]

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/exampleRef
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