Portugal currently holds the rotating presidency of the European Union. Portugal currently holds the rotating presidency of the European Union. Ambassador Moser, despite all these warnings from your European partners not to go down this path, Austria has done so. It's a complicated situation in Vienna and in Austria. Since the third of October we are struggling hard to find a new government, in spite of the fact that we are well off compared to other countries.
Inflation is low and unemployment, and steady growth.
We have a lot of reforms ahead of us. The outcome of this third of October election for the first time in our history made three parties almost equally strong. They had ruled the country more or less in the last 50 years and have formed the last coalition lasting, I mean, altogether since '86, but the differences in their programs, because of the nature of difficult projects and the reforms, had been shown insurmountable. The Social Democrats from the very beginning have said they would never form a government with the Freedom Party so the only option left now for a coalition government have been the black and the blue. Well, I think that the story you have just told us on previous film contains the answer, but essentially in the European Union we have a set of basic principles that has to be shared by everybody and put into practice.