Habsburg Nostalgia: Europe's Most Embarrassing Anachronism? Paradise Saved?
Category: POLITICS
While the autocratic Habsburg Empire was in no way a forerunner of the European Union, reviving its historical and cultural legacies -- unlike the expansion of extreme right wing and xenophobic parties in Austria, Hungary, and other parts of Central Europe -- is politically benign and potentially beneficial.
By Franz-Stefan Gady, ContributorSenior Fellow, EastWest Institute; Editor, The Diplomat Magazi..., 2014-06-10