Mr President, I am similarly dismayed at the way in which Austria continues to be prejudged by 14 Member States and in my view, despite the many words of praise about the Portuguese Presidency, the absurdity of the sanctions against Austria, which Member States agreed together but are applying bilaterally, will, as a German newspaper once wrote, go down as a peculiar irony in the history of the EU and therefore unfortunately also in the history of the Portuguese Presidency.
Señor Presidente, indignado igualmente por la persistente condena apresurada de Austria por 14 Estados miembros, soy de la opinión de que a pesar de las muchas palabras de elogio sobre la Presidencia portuguesa el hecho absurdo de las sanciones que se han acordado conjuntamente, aunque sean bilaterales, contra Austria va a pasar como una mala broma a la historia de la UE y, por ende, también, lamentablemente, a la historia de la Presidencia portuguesa.