Translate the following English sentence to French:
"It is also distressing to think that the initiative taken against Austria is actually the result of an agreement between governments and that, in any case, the European Union and its institutions would not have had the means or the consensus to allow them to act, and to prevent and rectify the course of events."
Il est triste aussi de penser que l'initiative prise à l'égard de l'Autriche découle en fait d'un accord entre gouvernements et que l'Union et ses Institutions n'auraient pas eu les d'agir, de prévenir et de corriger le cours des choses, ni le consensus nécessaire pour le faire.