The unpleasant truth first: The Austrians don't like us.

They think we have no sense of humor, that is, shameful, we cannot ski and spend too much time working (at least the latter has just been refuted: while Austrians spend almost five hours a day in gainful employment, in this country it is less than four).

We also say “delicious”.

The journalist Eva Reisinger provides the explanation for the anti-Piefke mood in her home country: Austria has a self-esteem problem.