Managed migration 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)
Retired colonel criticises Muslims and rejects multiculturalism
The defence ministry has distanced itself from an article on its website which describes Muslims as generally violent and united in seeking the overthrow of western society.
31 March 2004 (215 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)
Allegations of ÖVP racism
In an interview with a newspaper in Upper Austria, the local ÖVP mayor said: 'There are foreigners, I'm telling you, who well and truly stink.
29 July 2003 (79 words)
Language integration requirement criticised
Ines Michalowski, a researcher at the Institute for Migration Research at the University of Onasbruck says that 'making language-learning mandatory creates a negative image of migrants among the public'.
28 May 2003 (97 words)
FPÖ joins coalition government
Following the breakdown of negotiations with the Social Democrats and Greens, the conservative chancellor Wolfgang Schüssel finally formed a coalition government with the FPÖ in February 2003.
1 April 2003 (291 words)
Another Austrian bishop attacks Islam
The Bishop of Steiermark, Kapellari, has been criticised by Catholic organisations for launching an attack on Islam.
1 August 2002 (245 words)
New integration contract proposed
In March, the government proposed the introduction of a new integration contract, requiring non-EU immigrants to learn German within four years or leave the country.
1 August 2002 (330 words)
Psychologist demonises foreign offenders
A specialist in criminal psychology at the University of Salzburg, Walter Hauptmann, has called for 'foreign offenders' to be punished more severely than Austrian citizens.
1 October 2001 (77 words)
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