Originally Posted by Skybird

True, but as a representative of a nation, certain cosmetic attributes must be expoected, and if Oettinger is so hilarious in pronouncing English, he simply should hold any speeches in German.

Almost all German media currently have jokes and mockery about Oettinger, at least a critical reference.

BTW, numerically, the primary language in the EU is German anyway, not English, so it would not even be a big faux-pas to refuse to speak English (the French refuse it all the time). No other language inside the EU is spoken by so many people, like German.