He was weak, vacillating and ineffective as a politician, lacking in judgment and decision, and without any great parliamentary talent.
The king maintained a vacillating attitude, influenced now by the threats of the Bohemians, now by the advice of the papal nuncio, who had followed him to Prague.
Later on he attempted to influence the Prussian Northern Union in the direction of the national policy, and he took part in the sessions of the Erfurt parliament; but, soon realizing the hopelessness of any good results from the vacillating policy of Prussia, he retired from the contest, and, as a major in the service of the SchleswigHolstein government, took part in the Danish War of 1850.
Eugenius was dignified in demeanour, but inexperienced and vacillating in action and excitable in temper.
But he was at the same time vacillating, and not qualified to struggle against the fierce energies roused by the events of the Revolution.
