Austria
Austria: New government continues austerity policy
By Markus Salzmann, March 19, 2003
It is barely four months since the right-wing Freedom Party (FP) of Jörg Haider received a drubbing in the general election and lost nearly two thirds of its votes. But despite the outcome of the vot...
Austria: Greens bid for coalition with conservative ÖVP
By Markus Salzmann, January 7, 2003
Following elections in November and the clear victory of the ruling ÖVP (conservative Austrian Peoples Party), Chancellor Wolfgang Schüssel has been involved in continuous talks to find a coalition ...
Austria's right-wing Freedom Party riven by disputes
By Markus Salzmann, May 30, 2001
One year since its entry into the Austrian government, the ultra-right Freedom Party is in the midst of a sharp internal crisis.
Election in Vienna: Haider's anti-Semitic agitation backfires
By Ulrich Rippert, April 3, 2001
The election in the Austrian capital of Vienna, held Sunday, March 25, ended in a debacle for the extreme right Freedom Party (FPÖ). Vienna is both the capital of Austria and constitutionally the cou...
Austria's right-wing government marks one year in office
By Markus Salzmann and Ulrich Rippert, February 14, 2001
When the Austrian Freedom Party (FPÖ) entered into the Vienna government a year ago, it was widely predicted that this step would draw the teeth of Jörg Haider's extreme right-wing party—infam...
Austrian spying affair reveals close connections between Haider's Freedom Party and police
By Markus Salzmann, November 24, 2000
Jörg Haider's Austrian Freedom Party (FPÖ) had access to secret police data for many years. It used this in order to defame its political opponents and support its own xenophobic campaigns. It obtai...
Austria's Kaprun railway disaster reveals lack of safety measures
By Richard Tyler, November 16, 2000
The terrible fire on the Kaprun funicular railway has exposed a criminal lack of safety procedures. The death toll now stands at 158. It is believed that 155 died in the tunnel. Poisonous fumes that p...
Austria: heavy losses for Haider's party in provincial elections
By Marcus Salzmann, October 31, 2000
The results of the Steiermark (Styria) Province parliamentary elections have triggered a crisis in the Austrian federal government and within Jörg Haider's Freedom Party.
State racism in Austria
By Markus Salzman, September 16, 2000
On May 19 Imre B., a 35-year-old immigrant from Yugoslavia, was shot and killed by a police officer in the Vienna suburb of Penzing. Together with his companion Lajos S., Imre B. was stopped in his ca...
European Union lifts sanctions against Austria
A blank cheque for Jörg Haider
By Ulrich Rippert, September 15, 2000
The 14 European Union governments lifted their sanctions against Austria on September 12.
Austria: Right-wing coalition government intensifies welfare cuts
By Markus Salzmann, May 5, 2000
The Austrian government formed by the conservative People's Party ( Volkspartei —ÖVP) and Jörg Haider's right-wing Freedom Party ( Freiheitliche Partei —FPÖ) is continuing the dismantli...
Scabs begin training on Australian waterfront
By Terry Cook, February 27, 1998
Encouraged by the acquiescence of the trade union movement, the National Farmers Federation (NFF) has successfully begun training a strike-breaking force of scabs at Melbourne's Webb Dock, in the midd...
