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  Britain.tv Wikipedia - Austria
Austria is a parliamentary representative democracy consisting of nine federal states and is one of six European countries that have declared permanent neutral country neutrality and one of the few countries that included the concept of everlasting neutrality in their constitution.
While northern and central Germany was the origin of the Reformation, Austria (and Bavaria) was the heart of the Counter-Reformation in the 16th and 17th century, when the absolute monarchy of Habsburg imposed a strict regime to maintain Catholicism's power and influence among Austrians.
Austria was the cradle of numerous scientists including physicists Ludwig Boltzmann, Lise Meitner, Erwin Schrödinger, Ernst Mach, Wolfgang Pauli, Richard von Mises and Christian Doppler, philosophers Ludwig Wittgenstein and Karl Popper, biologists Gregor Mendel and Konrad Lorenz as well as mathematician Kurt Gödel.
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 Austrian Press & Information Service   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
In 1925 Austria issued a new currency in the form of the schilling and the rigid control exercised by the League of Nations was withdrawn.
Austria and its politicians, who had learnt from the bitter experiences of the past, together turned their attention to the reconstruction of the country and the restoration of full sovereignty.
Austria's efforts to join the EEC met with harsh comments from the Soviet Union as one of the signatory parties of the State Treaty.
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 WomenWatch - Austria: national action plan
Austria supports the full implementation, at the national and the international level, of the international resolutions and programmes targeted at the full and equal participation of women in all spheres of life and of society, and advocates their translation into the national systems as well as into the UN system.
Austria is committed to the principle of equal rights for all as a supporting pillar of any system designed for the protection of fundamental human rights and for the promotion of socially weaker population groups, in particular women.
Austria has put in place a variety of state schemes which draw the attention of girls, and also of their parents, to forms of secondary and tertiary educational and vocational training which lie outside the traditional fields of "women's occupations", and which encourage girls to opt for such occupations (see Chapter B 3).
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 History of Austria
Representatives of the new Republic of Austria convinced them that it was unfair to penalize Austria for the actions of a now dissolved Empire, especially as other areas of the Empire were now perceived to be on the "victorious" side, simply because they had renounced the Empire at the end of the war.
The German-speaking parts of western Hungary, now christianed Burgenland, joined Austria as a new state in 1921, with the exception of the city of Sopron, whose population decided in a referendum (which is sometimes considered by Austrians to have been rigged) to remain with Hungary.
Austria joined the European Union in 1995 (Video of the signing in 1994), and Austria was set on the track towards joining the Eurozone, which it did in 2002.
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 AllRefer.com - Austria - Nationalrat | Austrian Information Resource
Legislation occasionally starts in the Nationalrat, but the close cooperation between the executive and the majority party in parliament makes such initiation unnecessary most of the time.
Parliament's role in the legislative process is focused more on bringing to public attention the background of the government's legislative proposals and exposing any mistakes the government may have made.
Changes to legislative proposals may also be made after a bill has been introduced in the Nationalrat, but the majority of changes are made before the bill is introduced officially.
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 Austrian Press & Information Service   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Austria's constitutional law comprises the Federal Constitution, in the strict sense of the term, a multitude of constitutional acts and state treaties.
Austria is involved in international matters at different levels: after the signing of the State Treaty in May 1955, and the decision in favour of permanent neutrality, Austria joined the UN at the end of 1955, and the Council of Europe in 1956.
Austria's international role in the nineties is also attested to by other events: membership of the UN Security Council in 1991/92, coincided with the Gulf War and the incipient conflict in Yugoslavia.
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 Social Democratic Party of Austria - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
It was united in 1889 as Sozialdemokratische Arbeiterpartei Österreichs (SDAPÖ) and is one of the major parties in Austria.
Both under the Austro-fascist dictatorship (1934-1938) and during the German occupation of Austria between 1938 and 1945, the SPÖ was banned and persecuted heavily, but after liberation, the Social Democrats became a major political force in post-war Austria.
Currently, it holds the presidency of Austria under Heinz Fischer, and has 69 seats in the Nationalrat and 23 seats in the Bundesrat, making it the second largest party in Austria.
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 Austria - Enpsychlopedia
Austria (German language: Österreich, Croatian: Austrija, Hungarian: Ausztria, Slovenian: Avstrija) is a landlocked country in central Europe.
Austria is a parliamentary representative democracy consisting of nine federal states and is one of six European countries that have declared permanent neutrality.
Austria is a member of the United Nations (since 1955) and the European Union (since 1995).
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 Austria. Background Notes, July 2000
The present boundaries of Austria, once the center of the Habsburg Empire that constituted the second-largest state in Europe, were established in accordance with the Treaty of St. Germain in 1919.
The governors of Austria's nine Laender (provinces) are elected by the provincial legislatures.
Austria's political leaders and people recognize and appreciate the essential role played by U.S. economic assistance through the Marshall Plan in the reconstruction of their country after World War II, and by the U.S. in promoting the conclusion of the Austrian State Treaty.
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 EuroSight.Info -- Austria Government Information Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
At times, Austria's political system seemed impervious to change, but by the middle of the 1980s, it had become clear that far-reaching social and economic trends were beginning to affect the country's politics.
In the national election of 1990, the FPÖ won 16.6 percent of the vote, establishing itself as a new power in the Nationalrat.
The strong emotions unleashed inside Austria by this matter showed that the older generation is still reluctant to discuss the country's role in the Nazi era.
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 Politics of Austria - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Federal legislative power is vested in both the government and the two chambers of parliament, the National Council and the Federal Council.
Aside from the fact that the states of Austria lack an independent judiciary on the one hand and that their autonomy is largely notional on the other hand, Austria's government structure is surprisingly similar to that of incomparably larger federal republics such as Germany or the United States.
Austria's head of state is the Bundespräsident (Federal President), elected by popular vote for a term of six years and limited to two terms of office.
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 Federal Chancellary of Austria
The election reference date is mainly relevant to all candidates or groups whose nominations have not been signed by three Members of Parliament.
Austria was the first foreign country to which Hungarian Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsány paid an official visit (11 July 2006) after his re-election as head of government.
The representative of the Chinese embassy in Austria, Embassy Counsellor Liang, emphasised that this was the moment to present the exhibition as China was very open to new fields like architecture and was undergoing a radical transformation.
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 Lijphart Elections Archive   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The Lijphart Elections Archive is a static research collection of district level election results for approximately 350 national legislative elections in 26 countries that was maintained through 2003.
This was the origin of the Elections Archive in the University Library of the University of California, San Diego.
The objective of the Archive is to systematically collect election statistics in as much detail as possible, including, as a minimum, the results at the level of the individual election districts in which votes are converted into seats.
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 Elections and Electoral Systems by Country
The Center for Voting and Democracy is dedicated to fair elections where every vote counts and all voters are represented.
Legislative Council Elections, 24 May 1998, and 11 Sept 2000
UK General Election 1983, June, with full results and statistical breakdowns
www.psr.keele.ac.uk /election.htm   (1393 words)

  
 SAC 1983 to NOW
Elections would be secret and involve multiple parties and candidates.
West Germany, France, Britain, the United States, Belgium, Austria, Switzerland and Brazil all sold the components, machines and tools--much of the material with civilian as well as military application--that are the building blocks of the modern Iraqi war machine".
The first steps toward creation of vital, independent legislative and judicial institutions might have fed into the Yeltsin Constitution that followed two years later, though there is reason to think Yeltsin nipped those major governmental changes in the bud.
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 Austrian legislative election, 1983 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The elections to the Austrian National Council taking place in 1983 were the last campaign where the SPÖ was led by Chancellor Bruno Kreisky, who had been the head of government since 1970.
The elections resulted in gains for the ÖVP and losses for the SPÖ and FPÖ.
Two competing Green parties were on the ballot, none of which gained enough votes for representation in parliament.
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