However, I would only be marginally more pleased with Schluessel. Let us remember that while the OeVP is perhaps one of the best Christian Democrat parties in Europe (in terms of maintaining some link to Catholic Social Thought and social conservatism), this is only due to the political climate in Austria, with its maintenance of formally corporatist structures. The OeVP leadership is *very neoliberal* for Austria, and proposes typical Eurocrat and Eurobanker solutions pretty much down the line.

In this context, the OeVP is no longer much of an inheritor of the Christian Social tradition, though a minority wing of the party maintains such an ideological continuation. Haider, for his part, came out of the German nationalist tradition, which was national-liberal (this is a fact I am sure you, David, know, but most libertarians around here will be surprised to learn). Most of the old middle-class and elite Nazis were never socialists and both before and after the war were largely connected to this national-liberalism. Haider’s FPOe was therefore the most neoliberal party in Austria until the truth of globalisation was made known by all in the 1990s and he, like the better nationalist leaders in the rest of Europe, slowly changed tune. Before his death he was berating the US and Eurocrats for their lack of banking regulations leading to the worldwide financial crisis, for which both the OeVP and SPOe opposed him. He, and better yet, his former FPOe, are in some ways better inheritors of Christian-Social policies than the OeVP, even if they are less connected to Catholic Church hierarchy.

To summarise, the CSP would simply not be in league with New World Order (or whatever you prefer to call it) elites.