I re-read the essay just now. There is no sympathy for the EU expressed in it at all. Consider what I wrote:

“(Though it might be noted that Mr. Habsburg described the European Union as the fulfillment of the “Great Austrian Idea” of European unity in one political system; the old “Austrian idea,” of course, was for that political unity to be ruled by one family.) Despite my differences on the wisdom of the ‘Austrian Idea,’ I found the elder Mr. Habsburg quite likable.”

Note: “Despite my differences on the wisdom of the ‘Austrian Idea’….”

That said, EU membership for Austria has had mixed consequences, with some positive outcomes (e.g., allowing foreigners to own land in Austria and stopping the crazy practice of requiring Italian waiters to leave the country periodically to renew their work permits) and some negative (being sucked into the maw of the Eurocracy in Brussels and Strasbourg). I’m not a proponent of “the EU,” but I don’t blind myself to some positive outcomes of accession to the EU (which need to be weighed against the negative, such as imposition of a uniform tariff wall, which required Estonia, as an example, to raise tariffs against non-EU members in order to be allowed to join).

To conclude, I did condemn the idea of bringing back the Habsburgs (or monarchy generally) and I did not express sympathy for the EU (quite the opposite).

I refer to your article, “For Mises” sake. In it, you condemn the monarchy as inherently immoral [due to being undemocratic] and simultaneously seem sympathetic to Austria’s entry into the EU. Is that not true?

Micro, are you referring to me (I neither condoned monarchy nor praised the EU) or to Mel (I can’t see any reference to either in his comment)? I don’t follow your point.

To read “Sucking Up to Your Boss,” it’s at http://mises.org/story/3720

“A great many people have learned from Mises and Rothbard, but Lew Rockwell belongs to a much more select class: he has developed their thought in an original way.” Lew Rockwell truly is the new Lyndon LaRouche.