Translate the following English sentence to French:
"Fortunately, as far as the protection of the citizens is concerned, reactions at national level and in a number of Member States were rather more rapid and effective, compared with the incredible slowness and the usual paradoxes of Community bureaucracy."
Pour la protection des populations, heureusement que les réactions ont été, au niveau national et dans un certain nombre d' États membres, autrement rapides et efficaces, comparées aux incroyables lenteurs et habituels paradoxes de la bureaucratie communautaire.