For the ALDE group, Graham WATSON (UK) said things could have been worse, but the result of the Council was, as Mark Twain said of Wagner's music “ not as bad as it sounds .”
Graham WATSON (ALDE, UK) apsveica Austrijas prezidentūru ar panākumiem, lai gan " starp mums [Liberāļu un demokrātu grupā] ir gan ciniķi, gan optimisti ".