On Sunday, the Green Party’s top candidate for the EU elections, Lena Schilling, reacted to her Norwegian faux pas on “Good Night Austria”.
The Green’s top candidate for the European elections, Lena Schilling, apologized on social media for a “total blackout” after she was unable to answer the question of whether Norway was an EU member on the ORF satirical program “Gute Nacht Österreich”.
The question was asked to her on the sidelines of the federal congress, at which Lena Schilling was elected as the top candidate. She explained this in an Instagram post: “My mind was absolutely blank.” “Of course” she would normally have known that Norway was not a member of the EU. Now Lena Schilling is trying to take the whole thing with humor, even if it was “extremely embarrassing”.