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	WHKMLA : History of Austria, 1918-1920
		Austria's social democrats leaned to the left, planning to implement major reforms, which alienated the christians and the very conservative nationals.
		Austria was only a small part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire that had declared war on Serbia in 1914.
		Austria's economy was overburdened, as it had to switch back from wartime economy to peacetime economy, had to integrate returning soldiers, P.O.W.s and immigrants, mostly German nationals from the lost territories unwilling to live under the new regime.
	www.zum.de /whkmla/region/germany/au191820.html (517 words)

	Social Democratic Party of Austria - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Social Democratic Party of Austria (Sozialdemokratische Partei Österreichs, SPÖ) is a political party 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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Social_Democratic_Party_of_Austria (231 words)

	Austrian Press & Information Service (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		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Austria issued a new currency in the form of the schilling and the rigid control exercised by the League of Nations was withdrawn.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.
	www.austria.org /history_rep.shtml (6034 words)

	The Militant - Vol.63/No.36 - October 18, 1999 -- Ultrarightist gains in Austria elections
		Reflecting the growing polarization of politics in Austria the Greens also gained, rising from 4.8 percent in 1995 to 7.1 percent now, while the Liberal Forum fell from 5.5 percent to 2.9 percent and will not be seated in parliament.
		The 13-year "grand coalition" between the Social Democrats and the People's Party, the two parties that in one form or another have governed since 1945, is a particular target for this demagogy.
		Austria "was not a Nazi country before these elections and is not one after them," he stated.
	www.themilitant.com /1999/6336/633647.html (1019 words)

	Lenni Brenner: Zionism in the Age of the Dictators (Chap. 15)
		The Communist Party was one of the weakest in Europe, and the Social Democrats saw their enemies to the right in the Catholic Christian Socials – the party of the peasantry and the urban lower middle class – and the anti-Semitic German nationalists, with their base in the professions and the white-collar workers.
		The organised workingmen, social democrats and communists, frequently storm the meetings of the anti-Semites, not because of their friendship for the Jews, but because they believe the life of the republic at stake.
		Hitler would attack Austria at a favourable moment, which he was cheerfully awaiting, with the Schuschnigg regime “as his guarantee against the organisation of a defense in the meanwhile”.
	www.marxists.de /middleast/brenner/ch15.htm (2043 words)

	Austria -- The 2002 Index of Economic Freedom, The Heritage Foundation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		Because Austria is a member of the European Union, its trade policy is the same as the policies of other EU members.
		Austria's top income tax rate is 50 percent; the marginal rate for the average taxpayer is 41 percent.
		Austria's regulatory system is characterized in some sectors by complexity and slow, bureaucratic procedures.
	cf.heritage.org /index/country.cfm?ID=7.0 (1165 words)

	Airstrip One by Emmanuel Goldstein
		This is nothing more than the Milosovic style suspension of the democratic process, and a warning to all those who think that it is possible to work within the European Union for a democratic and open Europe.
		Ominously in a new press release, the PES are calling for measures to be taken against Austria under the dictatorial Clause 7, the soon to be infamous Anschluss Clause.
		Austria in short can defy the EU, if it wanted to, which is why many of the bureaucrats are opposing this mad move.
	www.antiwar.com /goldstein/g020900.html (2624 words)

	The Militant - 1/6/97 -- Ultraright Makes Gains In Austria
		The Social Democratic Party reached 29.1 percent of the vote, down from 38 percent in 1995, and the People's Party received 29.6 percent, up from 28 percent.
		A Social Democratic victory in the parliamentary elections forced the People's Party to rejoin the coalition in March 1996.
		In March, Austrian Social Democrat chancellor Franz Vranitzky announced austerity measures with tax increases and cuts in welfare to reduce the budget deficit by $9.7 billion by the end of 1997.
	www.themilitant.com /1997/611/611_22.html (744 words)

	ÖJ 2-3/2000 Politics
		All his affirmations that he was a Democrat and his party had been elected by 27 percent of the Austrians were in vain.
		Anyway, his forthcoming task will not be easy: He shall lead the Social Democratic Party, until now and for the last thirty years part of the Austrian government and source for the chancellor, into the new role of political opposition.
		The Social Democrats lost a great number of votes because of that as the younger people, those between 18 and 30 years of age, had traditionally given their votes rather to the Freedom Party than to the Social Democratic Party.
	www.oe-journal.at /0300/06_010300_e.htm (1906 words)

	AUSTRIA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		Austria was immediately subjected to a vigorous policy of economic and political integration aimed at destroying everything that reflected Austrian identity.
		Austria’s "Anschluss" to the German Reich to be null and void and expressed their intention to see a free and independent Austria re-established.
		The attitude of the United States toward the military occupation of Austria by Germany and its formal incorporation in the German Reich in 1938 was guided by this consideration and by the well established policy of the United States toward the acquisition of territory by force.
	www.austria.it /resten.htm (6020 words)

	ÖJ Politics 2-3/2000
		The public perception and the medial coverage in Austria are at the moment dominated by the international wave of protest and the demonstrations against the new government.
		The attacks—especially the indignation of the EU Foreign Ministers—also aim at the Republic of Austria.
		Austria as a small country has also proved its willingness to incorporate refugees in emergency situations in the past (e.g.
	www.oe-journal.at /0300/06_020300_e.htm (806 words)

	Al-Ahram Weekly \| Opinion \| Nazism resurrected (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		For the Europeans, Haider's rise in Austria is chillingly similar to Hitler's rise in Germany in the early thirties and Mussolini's in Italy in the early twenties.
		But although Austria was not treated as a vanquished nation after World War II, it was occupied by the four Allied powers after the war and thus had its own reasons to be frustrated.
		Austria's position was thus ambivalent emerging from the war neither victorious nor defeated, it adopted the mantle of "neutrality".
	weekly.ahram.org.eg /2000/469/op2.htm (1348 words)

	EFGP : Austria (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		A protest of Upper Austria against the federal law on asylum, the decision on a regional anti-discrimination act, the agreement on a stop of new highway projects and several concrete steps for stronger promotion of renewable energies are some of the measures this new coalition has taken.
		It was the first time in Austria that Greens have been in a position to negotiate on forming a government.
		In the elections to the European Parliament on June 13th, 2004, the tendency of green growth (6.81% in 1996, 9.29% in 1999) prevailed.
	www.europeangreens.org /peopleandparties/members/austria.html (1126 words)

	Austria - Who let in Jorg Haider? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		Austria was occupied by the Allies and in only a few weeks the liberation from Nazism changed into occupation.
		These were years in which Social Democrats had the majority within the government and Schlogl was Minster of the Interior it was at that moment that police killed a young Nigerian immigrant by taping his mouth so that he suffocated.
		The Social Democrats were very much in favour of this party being created and supported it until the 1970s because they said that this would divide the big bourgeoisie into two different parties.
	www.labournet.org.uk /so/32austria16.html (2992 words)

	TIBS: NR-Wahlen 99 in der int. Presse
		Haider, 51, the telegenic son of a former Nazi official, attributed his party's success to the mounting frustrations of Austrian voters with the influx of illegal immigrants whom he blames for rising levels of crime, drug dealing and prostitution.
		While focusing his pitch on Austria's antipathy to foreigners, Haider also tried to outflank the Social Democrats by proposing to restore an array of government benefits that Austria trimmed to meet the EU's budgetary requirements.
		Haider was forced to resign as governor of Carinthia province in 1991 after his praise for the "sound employment policies" of the Third Reich was interpreted as an endorsement of slave labor.
	www.bildungsservice.at /pol/wash_post.htm (758 words)

	BBC News \| EUROPE \| Austria keeps out far-right
		Austria's Social Democrats and the conservative People's Party have agreed a new coalition, keeping the far-right Freedom Party out of government.
		In the election, the Social Democrats remained the largest party with 65 seats, with the Freedom Party and the People's Party on 52 each and the Greens 14.
		Greens leader Alexander van der Bellen said the Social Democrats had sacrificed their principles for the sake of remaining in power.
	news.bbc.co.uk.edgesuite.net /1/low/world/europe/609976.stm (454 words)

	CER \| Austria: Free from mad cow disease?
		The leader of the opposition Social Democratic Party (SPÖ), Alfred Gusenbauer, stated this week in an interview for the Austrian television (ÖRF) that the objective of his party was to win the next parliamentary elections due in 2003.
		The two parliamentary opposition parties, the Social Democrats and the Greens, have expressed reservations about the extension of child benefits, a measure they perceive as regressive with regards to the issue of the employment of women.
		President Thomas Klestil, in his New Year address, reiterated Austria's commitment to EU enlargement and contended that enlargement would have a positive impact on Austria's "economy and security." He also said that Austria did have common interests with its neighbours.
	www.ce-review.org /01/1/austrianews1.html (921 words)

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		Both are democratic parties, each of them having received about 27% of the votes in the last election, and together they have a majority in the parliament.
		In the present situation one may well expect the Christian Democrats as leading members of the government to maintain their humanitarian principles and follow appropriate steps in face of the strong opposition that will certainly be articulated by the Social Democrats and the Green Party.
		Austria was among the first countries to clearly oppose the Serbian actions in Croatia, Bosnia, Herzegovina, and Kosovo.
	physik.kfunigraz.ac.at /itp/iukt/iukt_00/stmnt.html (1162 words)

	Austria: Social democrats form coalition in Carinthia with Haider
		As the daughter of a farmer from Upper Austria, her career did not follow the usual course of a passage through the party and trade unions.
		The readiness of the social democrats to unite with Haider is also bound up with the economic and political changes that have been precipitated by the forthcoming eastward expansion of the European Union.
		That the social democrats have now undertaken a coalition with this extreme-right-wing party is the clearest indication of the general lurch to the right in official bourgeois politics in Europe.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2004/mar2004/aust-m23_prn.shtml (1218 words)

	CER \| Austria: Greens leader hits out against Social Democrats
		He accused the Social Democrats of having sustained for many years a de facto "quiet coalition with the Freedom Party on foreign policy issues" and having only recently "discovered" environmental issues.
		During an interview for the Austrian TV ÖRF, the German social democrat referred to the late Austrian social democratic chancellor Bruno Kreisky, who governed from 1970 to 1983, as an inspiration for him.
		The decline of anti-Semitic attitudes is especially pronounced among the eldest and the retired people (14 percent instead of 34 percent ten years ago) as well as the educated.
	www.ce-review.org /01/19/austrianews19.html (555 words)

	Untitled Document
		Haider's party, which favors cutting off immigration to Austria and preventing European Union expansion because it is likely to bring more Eastern Europeans over Austria's borders, came in second in the October elections, with 27 percent of the vote.
		He implies that immigrants are responsible for Austria's crime rate and "drug problem" (although both are negligible), for welfare fraud and for increases in tuberculosis in public schools.
		This weekend, he was harsher, saying Austria had not demanded the removal of a Belgian government accused of corruption and said Mr.
	claweb.cla.unipd.it /home/rchurch/site_one/austria_read.htm (1286 words)

	Untitled
		Austria’s Federal president Thomas Klestil and chancellor Schüssel have tried to tranquilize the Community, but the triumphant FPÖ-leader Haider has made things even worse by pronouncing several offensive statements against the partner countries.
		Compelled by the Christian Democrats, the Social Democrats had already renounced many requests of their platform, but when Schüssel wanted to discuss even their ministers, trying to exclude some of the most popular, Klima’s party dedided to interrupt the talks.
		Austria’s situation seems now even more difficult than in the late 80s, when the presidency of Kurt Waldheim, suspected of Nazi-crimes, provoked international isolation.
	www.suite101.com /print_article.cfm/1894/34816 (1676 words)

	Online NewsHour: Austria vs. Europe -- February 3, 2000
		PETER MOSER, Ambassador, Austria: It's a complicated situation in Vienna and in Austria.
		They had ruled the country more or less in the last 50 years and have formed the last coalition lasting, I mean, altogether since '86, but the differences in their programs, because of the nature of difficult projects and the reforms, had been shown insurmountable.
		But in Austria there is a slightly different situation because whatever an Austrian politician says he always should have in mind that he will be looked upon with a background of the past history in Austria.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/europe/jan-june00/austria_2-3.html (1608 words)

	Axis History Forum :: View topic - Austrian 'Civil War' 1934
		Kreisky himself was a social democrat so therefore ha was arrested by the secret police.
		Another problem was, a general strike was one of the first thing to be started bei the Social Democrats, when the fighting begun.
		The soviet union was a hope for the former social democrats- at first.
	forum.axishistory.com /viewtopic.php?t=23534 (1037 words)

	Smash Austria! Smash Nationalism!
		Now the FPOE is the second strongest party in Austria (after the SPOE, the social democrats), in some regions it is even the strongest.
		When Austria was part of Nazi-Germany, there was little resistance and the regime had to be beaten by the armies of the allies.
		All of the parties (social democrats, conservatives and communists) were already striving for the votes of (de-nazified) Nazis in 1949, when they all decided to readmit them for elections.
	www.raw.at /sub/texte/andere_sprachen/englisch/smash_austria.htm (1327 words)

	Centre left wins Austria election : thewest.com.au
		Austria's Social Democrats scored a narrow upset victory over the ruling conservatives in a national election on Sunday that also brought a surge of rightist parties demanding a crackdown on immigrants.
		The Social Democrats gained 35.7 per cent according to preliminary results, almost 1 percent behind their finish in the last elections in 2002.
		The Social Democrats had been predicted to lag behind Schuessel by 2 to 3 percentage points in opinion polls.
	www.thewest.com.au /printfriendly.aspx?StoryName=321689 (546 words)

	EU Warns Austria of Sanctions (washingtonpost.com)
		After nearly four months of fruitless negotiations, Viktor Klima, the outgoing Social Democratic chancellor, last week gave up trying to persuade the People's Party to renew their coalition and abandoned hopes of forming a minority government.
		"Austria does not need lessons in democracy; we are not a developing country as far as human rights are concerned," he said.
		Even though Austria has one of Europe's most prosperous economies and lowest unemployment rates, Haider has effectively played up his message of fear by warning that the country will quickly become estranged from its cultural and racial heritage by acquiescing to the free movement of people, capital and goods required by the European Union.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/pmextra/feb00/01/austria.htm (984 words)

	'Huge gains' for Austria's centre-right (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		The opposition Social Democrat Party say they expect a new centre-right coalition, and have already conceded defeat, saying they would rather be in opposition than form a coalition with the conservatives.
		Austria and the Italians are historicly a good predictor of Euro trends, I sniff a move to the right in the EU, possible?
		There are several issues with regard to Austria's political environment that make it difficult for me to assess what's truly going on there.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/news/795153/posts (4535 words)

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