We have debated this on other threads as I say before you judge walk in there shoes.
You have to think back to what it was like then.
Got a excellent book at home will bring in the title, for you as you seem to be interested in Germany and Austria.
It will help you gather that sense of perspective I am talking about.
They should research their own history and find out where they went wrong and fix that.
The Jeffersonian revolutions of the 1840s would probably be a good stopping point. Their elites should finally give up their idea that there's an European "third way" and implement the reforms demanded at that time.
That'll at least get them off on a good footing.