Vienna as capital?
Perhaps it’s time to undo the catastrophe of 1918. Whatever its faults, the old empire was better than anything that replaced it.
Imagine a Central European economic confederation set up to defy the EU. We already have some of the parts in the Visegrad defense pact.
And imagine the restoration of ceremonial monarchy to handle the head-of-state duties.
Hoch Hapsburg!
Destroying the Hapsburg Empire was a huge mistake. It unleashed a lot of ethnic hatreds that the Hapsburgs had tamped down and it created an enormous power vacuum in Central Europe that would inevitably be filled by either Germany or Russia. There simply is not a single ethnic group in the region that is large enough to exert control. Therefore with lots of relatively smaller to medium sized countries, they were prime targets to be dominated by and feed the war machines of first the Nazis and then the Commies.
As with everything else done at Versailles, this was a huge blunder driven by French bitterness and envy toward Vienna as the cultural capital of Europe.