Bad move, EU

Isolating Austria, as the EU has warned it will do in the event of AFP participation in an Austrian ruling coalition, is a bad move. The AFP derives its support from Austrians afraid of EU expansionism and the economic competition from eastern european immigrants such expansion could lead to. As provincial or xenophobic as it may be, denying EU representation to the duly elected AFP, should it have enough seats to leverage its way into the Austrian government, will needlessly villify the EU in Austrian eyes and lend weight to the AFP's states'-rights arguments. We in the US know where that leads. Far better to trust that, to the extent that an Austrian government is radicalized by AFP participation, it will most certainly be marginalized by other EU members in vote after vote and in countless informal diplomatic stiff-arms. Counterproductive isolationist policies, if pushed to completion by the AFP, would soon bear rotten economic fruit perfectly well of their own accord. To formalize thoroughly appropriate distaste for the AFP by abrogating Austria's representational rights in the EU matches wrong with wrong and succors the enemy. Bad move. Did those europeans learn nothing from Versailles?