Austria - The only anti-Western country in the European Union?

I came across an interesting text:

FELLOW TRAVELLERS: RUSSIA, ANTI-WESTERNISM, AND EUROPE’S POLITICAL PARTIES
Gustav Gressel, European Council on Foreign Relations, July 2017

Link: https://www.ecfr.eu/page/-/ECFR225_-_FELLOW_TRAVELLERS1.pdf

What can be read here about Austria will probably shock some people. Others, on the other hand, will be less surprised. Some excerpts:

In five countries – Austria, Bulgaria, Greece, Hungary, and Slovakia – the overall party system tends towards anti-Western positions on most of the 12 questions. [...] In fact, Austria is the only EU country that receives an anti-Western score on all 12 questions – although sometimes only marginally so.

These 12 questions are:

• support for the European Union;
• liberalism as a European value;
• secularism as a European value;
• support for the NATO/EU-centric European security order;
• the country’s support for transatlantic relations;
• free trade and globalisation;
• the country’s relations with Russia;
• the country’s sanctions on Russia;
• the country’s support for Ukraine;
• refugees and migration;
• the war in Syria;
• the particular party’s links to Russia.

Some may be surprised: SPÖ, ÖVP and FPÖ, all three major parties are considered moderately to extremely anti-Western. A disgrace for a Western European industrialised country!

But it does not surprise me. It explains why I have never felt particularly at home here in Austria, to put it bluntly and honestly. Even though I have always been materially well off. I am much too pro-Western. Obviously it is really time that I went to Brussels!

Anyway, it is thought-provoking.

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