Thomas said that glorifying Nazism is illegal under the Austrian constitution (clearly anti-democratic but understandable given Austria's past including the German takeover in 1938). But Haidar, like recent right-wing xenophobes elsewhere (such as France's Jean-Marie Le Pen or David Duke), encrypted his bigotry, saying things such as that SS officers should be thanked for defending Germany from the Communists. Was this a prosecutable offense? Or grounds for intervention? Fortunately, the EU's attempted boycott fizzled out, as so many EU issues do.