Freshly back from a fact-finding trip through Finland and Estonia with a focus on education, NEOS boss Beate Meinl-Reisinger settled accounts with the ÖVP and SPÖ on Monday. “These two old parties are broken,” she said at a press conference. ÖVP boss Karl Nehammer’s speech on Friday was a “praise of mediocrity”, and to the SPÖ she only said: “It hurts to watch.” She presented her NEOS as ready to shape and govern.