There were no surprises. Reinhold Lopatka (ÖVP) warmed to combustion engines, Andreas Schieder (SPÖ) to ecology. Harald Vilimsky (FPÖ) criticised the EU-Ukraine and asylum policy, while Lena Schilling (Greens) warned of the climate crisis and Helmut Brandstätter (NEOS) called for an EU professional army.
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The positions were immediately apparent in the EU’s renaturation efforts, which are in danger of failing in Austria, where the ÖVP in particular is resisting. “Austria is smarter and better than the community in Brussels wants to impose on us,” said Vilimsky, while Lopatka mocked the instructions given to farmers to “count butterflies.”
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Schilling: “Lazy excuses”
Schilling, on the other hand, criticized “lame excuses” and recalled 6,000 scientists who had opposed the campaigning of the European People’s Party. She also complained that the negative decision of the state governors remained intact despite the apparent turnaround in Vienna and Carinthia. Schieder and Brandstätter, in turn, accused the Greens of not having pushed through the climate protection law.
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Photo: Thomas Ramstorfer (ORF)
Source: Nachrichten
