3. The European Conservative Party doesn't know where it stands
As a matter of fact: nor does the Social Democratic. However during Berlusconi's presidency the conservatives did everything to defend his actions: be it calling other people Nazis, damaging the image of the EU, glorifying Mussolini or just being drunk: as far as they are concerned he did it perfect and his opponents/interviewers/conversational partner were at fault for tricking him into such an awkward position.
Haider is not a conservative - his (former) coalition partner is. The extreme RW Haider is what became of the Austrian liberal party. (Did I mention that "liberal" has a very different political meaning in Europe?)
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