Extreme-Right politics in Austria
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Opposition to Turkey
Wolfgang Schüssel, the Chancellor, has voiced fears about richer EU countries having to meet the crippling bill to finance Turkey's membership of the EU.
18 December 2004 (186 words)
Traiskirchen mayor campaigns against refugee hostel
Fritz Knotzer, the Social Democratic mayor of Traiskirchen has handed to the interior minister a petition of 21,000 signatures against the local refugee hostel.
1 December 2004 (84 words)
Strasser links crime to asylum
Interior minister Strasser (ÖVP) says that asylum seekers are increasingly responsible for crimes and such people are 'a threat to Austria' and 'not needed' and should be deported.
1 December 2004 (109 words)
Freedom Party defeated in Vorarlberg
Haider's Freedom Party lost half of its support in regional elections in Vorarlberg held on 29 September.
20 October 2004 (69 words)
Quick to forget
A study by the Linz-based IMAS Institute has found that 10 per cent of Austrians do not know who Adolf Hitler was (an increase of five per cent since 1985).
17 October 2004 (38 words)
Authors resist Right's plan on cultural showcase
A plan by Vienna columnist Günther Nenning, which is backed by the centre-right government of Christian Democrats and the Freedom Party as well as the rightwing tabloid Kronenzeitung, to showcase Austria's greatest literature in a festival to mark ten years in the EU and sixty years since the defeat of Nazism, is being opposed by a number of artists.
17 October 2004 (149 words)
FPÖ General Secretary in racist opposition to votes for 'foreigners'
Magda Bleckmann, general secretary of the Freedom Party, in opposing granting of partial voting rights to foreigners in Graz and Linz, made racist remarks about 'Turks who besieged Vienna twice in the past' now having 'a foot in the door' and 'any African drug dealer, registered with Caritas for just five years, can vote and stand for election in Vienna'.
27 July 2004 (99 words)
Anti-Semites disrupt theatre
In June, four people disrupted a play at Vienna's Rabenhof theatre which was dealing with the events of the 1934 civil war.
28 June 2004 (55 words)
ÖVP leadership shows its anti-asylum colours
Herwig van Staa, a senior conservative (ÖVP) government minister in south Tyrol is demanding that 'sharper measures' be taken against refugees and proposes that immigrants be accommodated in 'an internment facility'.
28 June 2004 (111 words)
European parliament elections: poor showing for FPÖ
In the June European parliament elections, the Freedom Party lost four of its five seats.
14 June 2004 (26 words)
Anti-racism law is too weak
Belatedly, Austria is implementing the EU 2000 anti-discrimination and anti-racism legislation, which should have been in place last year.
28 May 2004 (142 words)
The FPÖ in provincial elections
Carinthia: Social Democrats and Freedom Party form coalition government
10 March 2004 (163 words)
Styrian Nazis get suspended sentences
Eight east Styrians aged between 18 and 27 have been given partially conditional prison sentences ranging from four to 24 months for spreading Nazi ideas.
1 March 2004 (94 words)
Vienna city government subsidises extremists' centre
Vienna city government, with support from all parties including the Social Democrats, has approved subsidies of 650,000 Euro for 'Homeland House', a centre of the extremist rightwing Association of Ethnic German Landsmannschaften (welfare and cultural associations for Germans born in the eastern areas of the former Reich).
1 February 2004 (177 words)
FPÖ youth linked to neo-Nazis
The Ring of Liberal Youth (RFJ) , the youth organisation of the governing FPÖ, is apparently not concerned to conceal links to Austria's neo-Nazi scene.
1 January 2004 (87 words)
Controversy over EUMC anti-Semitism report
A furore has erupted over the fact that a study of European anti-Semitism commissioned by the Vienna-based European Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia (EUMC) has not been published.
28 November 2003 (221 words)
Freedom Party suffers setback in provincial elections
In the Landtag (provincial parliament elections) in Upper Austria and the Tyrol, the Freedom Party was clearly defeated.
29 September 2003 (110 words)
Former Freedom Party councillor arrested for Holocaust denial
Wolfgang Fröhlich, a former Freedom Party (FPÖ) councillor in Vienna, has been arrested following the issue of an arrest warrant against him two years ago.
1 August 2003 (58 words)
Schoolchildren must not speak mother tongue
A school in Vienna has instructed non-Austrian pupils not to speak in their mother-tongue, even during breaks.
29 July 2003 (54 words)
Concern over interior ministry asylum appointment
The web-journal Evil Austria is concerned that undue FPÖ pressure has led to the appointment of Christian Romanoski to head the asylum section of the Ministry of the Interior.
29 July 2003 (58 words)
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