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	Austria. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Austria is located at the crossroads of Europe; Vienna is at the gate of the Danubian plain, and the Brenner Pass in W Austria links Germany and Italy.
		Austria captured world attention in 1986 when former UN secretary-general Kurt Waldheim was elected president despite allegations that he had been involved in atrocities as a German army staff officer in the Balkans during World War II.
		Austria was quickly ostracized by other EU nations because of the Freedom party’s participation in the government, and Haider—who had not joined the government—subsequently resigned as party leader.
	www.bartleby.com /65/au/Austria.html (3380 words)

	Country Studies - Austria: The Freedom Party of Austria
		The Freedom Party of Austria (Freiheitliche Partei Österreichs--FPÖ) was founded in 1956 by Anton Reinthaller, who had served in the Seyss-Inquart national socialist government formed in collaboration with Hitler after the Anschluss in 1938.
		The party enthusiastically endorsed free enterprise and individual initiative and opposed a larger role for the state in the ownership of enterprises.
		In the March 1989 provincial election in Carinthia, the FPÖ displaced the ÖVP as the second strongest party, and Haider was elected governor of the province with votes from the ÖVP.
	www.photoglobe.info /ebooks/austria/cstudies_austria_0139.html (1338 words)

	Freedom Party of Austria - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Austrian Freedom Party (Freiheitliche Partei Österreichs, abbreviated to FPÖ) is a far-right political party in Austria.
		The Freedom Party was founded in 1956 and had its roots in the Pan German movement, which included both elements of liberalism and nationalism.
		"The Discursive Representation of Masculinity in the Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ)".
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Freedom_Party_of_Austria (1721 words)

	Country Studies - Austria: The Social Democratic Party of Austria
		In 1945 it was reconstituted as the Socialist Party of Austria.
		Although party platforms continued to refer to the classless society as an ideal, the SPÖ was careful to distinguish its brand of socialism from the centralized, inefficient version of Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union.
		The freedom to pursue wealth had to be balanced by the government's guarantee of equal opportunity and social justice.
	www.photoglobe.info /ebooks/austria/cstudies_austria_0137.html (1460 words)

	Freedom Party growing in Austria
		Once a pariah in national politics, the Freedom Party, led by populist firebrand Jorg Haider, 49, received 27.5 percent of the vote in regional elections in Vorarlberg on Sept. 19.
		The party won 22 percent of the vote in Austria's last general elections in 1995.
		Observant members of Austria's 7,000 to 10,000 strong Jewish community may not be able to vote in the Oct. 3 election because it is scheduled on Simchat Torah.
	www.jewishaz.com /jewishnews/991001/party.shtml (337 words)

	Uproar in Austria, wait-and-see in Rome
		The leader of the Freedom Party, Jörg Haider, has made comments over the years that signal a somewhat revisionist view of the Nazi era, such as his claim that Hitler’s employment policy was “orderly” and that Waffen SS veterans were honest soldiers.
		Austria’s October general election left three parties with roughly even shares of the vote: the left-leaning Social Democrats, the right-leaning Peoples’ Party, and the far-right Freedom Party.
		Wolfgang Schüssel, Peoples’ Party leader and a man of solid democratic credentials, decided to try to tame Haider by bringing his party into the government, mainly because polls indicated that frustrated voters would make the Freedom Party No. 1 if there were a new round of balloting (its support is estimated at 31 percent).
	www.natcath.com /NCR_Online/archives/021800/021800c.htm (1606 words)

	Central Europe Review - On the Inside Looking out: Austria's New OVP-FPV Government, Jorg Haider and Europe
		Austria has a considerable deficit problem (which no one in office talked about before the elections of October 3 last year), and it must meet certain budgetary (or deficit management) criteria related to the "convergence criteria" stipulated by the introduction of the Euro.
		Greens as a parliamentary faction and the rise of Jörg Haider to the party chairmanship of the FPÖ.
		The two major parties have indulged in extensive systems of proportional power-sharing and political patronage (called Proporz and Parteibuchwirtschaft or "the economics of party membership"), and those Austrians who have not been or are not benefactors of these arrangements have expressed their discontent by voting for the FPÖ as a means of protest.
	www.ce-review.org /00/10/essay10.html (7039 words)

	Austria's Freedom Party \| Today's issues \| Guardian Unlimited
		He became Freedom Party leader in 1986, when the party was barely securing 5% at the polls, and provincial governor of his native Carinthia in 1989.
		Austria has been without a proper government for four months since the inconclusive election in which the Freedom Party surged into second place behind the
		Although Austria is one of Europe's richest countries and its unemployment levels lower than ever, Austrians were fed up with the fractious coalition parties, their high taxes, austerity budget and two-party patronage system.
	www.guardian.co.uk /theissues/article/0,6512,240890,00.html (536 words)

	Center for Voting and Democracy
		The snap election was called after Haider triggered a coalition crisis by trying to retake control of the party he led for 15 years until 2000, forcing the resignation of moderate Freedom ministers.
		But with the Social Democrats and People's Party both polling around 40 percent on the eve of the election, political analysts said it was impossible to predict the outcome.
		Austria's ailing economy, forecast to grow less than one percent this year with unemployment rising to over five percent, has been the focus of campaigning.
	www.fairvote.org /pr/global/austriafreedomparty.htm (689 words)

	RTE News - Veiled threat to block EU decisions by Freedom Party
		Joerg Haider, the leader of Austria's far-right Freedom Party, has issued a thinly veiled threat to block EU decisions if union members maintain sanctions on Vienna because of his group's inclusion in government.
		Austria's Chancellor, Wolfgang Schuessel, has begun a campaign to try to limit the damage caused by the inclusion of the Freedom Party in the new coalition.
		Mr Schuessel said Austria was no pariah state and that a new Hitler was not on the rise to power in his country.
	www.rte.ie /news/2000/0205/austria.html (316 words)

	Austria: Freedom Party strengthened in Vienna elections
		While BZÖ remained in the national government and thus is associated with anti-social politics etc., the Freedom Party seems to have managed a partial recovery after their vote had significantly dropped while part of the national government.
		The elections in Germany but also in Steiermark/ Styria (a regional state in Austria where the Communist Party’s vote went up to 6.3% from 1% in the previous elections) have shown that there is a potential for a new force on the left.
		SLP had a clear socialist profile in the election campaign and was the only party to organise public activities against the racist election campaign of the Freedom Party (FPÖ).
	www.socialistworld.net /eng/2005/10/27austria.html (860 words)

	Austria's Haider Reportedly Resigns
		VIENNA, Austria –– Joerg Haider, the politician known for his anti-foreigner statements and past praise of Nazi employment policies, resigned Monday as head of the far-right Freedom Party, the Austria Press Agency reported.
		The agency quoted unidentified party sources attending a closed-door meeting of the group's national leadership at a downtown hotel.
		APA said Haider told the party leadership meeting that he was stepping down because he did not want "to stand in the way" of the work of the new government.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/aponline/20000228/aponline170308_000.htm (361 words)

	Index of Economic Freedom 2006 - Austria
		Austria's fiscal burden of government score is 0.9 point better this year, and its informal market score is 0.5 point better.
		Austria's trade policy is the same as the policies of other members of the European Union.
		Austria does not maintain a minimum wage; minimum wages are determined by annual collective bargaining agreements between employers and employee trade unions.
	www.heritage.org /research/features/index/country.cfm?id=Austria (1058 words)

	BBC News \| EUROPE \| Austria's Freedom Party in crisis
		The far-right Freedom Party in Austria - formerly led by Joerg Haider - is in crisis.
		As a result, he said, he was resigning, becoming the third Freedom party minister to step down in nine months of government.
		The party's low fortunes have led some commentators in Austria to speculate that Joerg Haider could be about to stage a comeback to national politics.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/europe/1011397.stm (292 words)

	Austria's centre-left party mulls coalition talks after election win
		The leader of the Social Democratic Party of Austria said he is considering inviting either the centre-right Austrian People's Party or the leftist Greens to hold coalition talks after his centre-left party won most of the seats in Sunday's election.
		The People's Party came in second with 34.2 per cent, followed by the Freedom Party, which campaigned on an anti-foreigner platform, with 11.2 per cent, Prokop said.
		The party also said it opposed a general amnesty for foreigners who are in the country illegally.
	www.cbc.ca /world/story/2006/10/02/austriaelection.html (1307 words)

	Can the European Union legally impose any sanctions on Austria becau
		Austria could pose a problem in immigration policy, for example where the EU has set itself a five-year deadline to agree on common approach for refugees, including a common definition of refugee status and also minimum standards of legal aid and welfare for asylum seekers."
		Perhaps the best way to sum up opposition to the Freedom Party's inclusion in the Government was by a French spokesperson's statement the day before the swearing-in of the Freedom Party members: "For the first time, members of a party with an extremist, xenophobic ideology hold government responsibilities in an EU country.
		There is the possibility that the Freedom Party will cause Austria to violate the EU treaty by acting on some of its beliefs and campaign promises, but that has not happened yet, so no official sanctions should be imposed.
	www.fcsl.edu /academics/journal/volumethree/Mcmanfin.htm (1183 words)

	Austria's Haider Takes A Hit - CBS News
		Austria's Freedom Party led by the controversial Joerg Haider got routed in elections for Vienna's city hall over the weekend.
		Leading members of other parties linked the loss of the Freedom Party's popularity to inflammatory statements made by Haider during the election campaign that many criticized as anti-Semitic, as well as the party's attempt to exploit anti-foreigner sentiment.
		On the national level, the Freedom Party was propelled into the Austrian government coalition in February 2000 after winning a stunning 29 percent in national elections.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2001/03/26/world/printable281546.shtml (918 words)

	IngentaConnect The discursive representation of masculinity in the Freedom Party... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The discursive representation of masculinity in the Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ;)
		The analysis of two of the party's newspapers and of group discussions conducted with young party activists will show the party's willingness to seize on the insecurities that men experience in the ongoing transformation of gender relations.
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	www.ingentaconnect.com /content/jbp/jlp/2005/00000004/00000003/art00003 (251 words)

	CNN.com - World - Austrian rightist leader Haider steps down as party chief - February 28, 2000
		VIENNA, Austria (CNN) -- Joerg Haider announced his resignation as head of Austria's Freedom Party on Monday, less than a month after the rightist party's inclusion in Austria's government sparked international protests.
		Haider took over as the Freedom Party's leader in 1986, taking it from a minor party to a partner in the country's governing coalition.
		Austrian commentators noted the move did not mean the end of Haider's political influence in the new government: Half the country's Cabinet ministers belong to the Freedom Party.
	archives.cnn.com /2000/WORLD/europe/02/28/austria.haider.03 (869 words)

	ADL Condemns Austrian Extremist Haider for Anti-Semitic Stereotyping - Press Release
		Haider, governor of the Austrian province of Carinthia, is a member and former leader of the Freedom Party, a right-wing party with nativist and xenophobic policies.
		The inclusion of the Freedom Party in Austria’s governing coalition led to outrage in the international community and within much of Austrian society.
		In addition to Haider’s ongoing outrages, the Freedom Party continues in its path of xenophobia, nativism and intolerance.
	www.adl.org /PresRele/AsInt_13/3775_13.asp (330 words)

	BBC News \| EUROPE \| One year on: Austria's Freedom Party
		Joerg Haider's far-right Freedom Party joined Austria's coalition government a year ago, when the party won more than one in four votes in a national election.
		And he's not alone - in the last year the Freedom Party has struggled in the polls and put in a poor performance in regional elections.
		The party has lost a third of its national support, and some are saying it may soon consign itself to the political wasteland.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/europe/1150198.stm (459 words)

	Bilateral Contacts to Be Cut if Haider Party Gets In : Austria Is Risking Isolation Over Far Right, EU Warns
		But those policies struck a chord in Austria, helping the Freedom Party win the second-highest number of votes in the October elections behind the Social Democratic Party, which has governed Austria either solely or in coalition with the People's Party since World War II.
		Foreign Minister Hubert Vedrine of France said that Austria "would be subjected to a constant surveillance, such as no member country of the European Union has ever seen before" if the Freedom Party was included in government.
		Schuessel said over the weekend that the Freedom Party would have to commit itself to a pro-European stance that included support for EU enlargement in order to join a coalition.
	www.iht.com /articles/2000/02/01/austria.2.t.php (1185 words)

	Online NewsHour: Austria vs. Europe -- February 3, 2000
		The Austrian government is poised to include the far-right Freedom Party, despite protests from some citizens and threats of isolation from some allies.
		I am the leader of new movement which comes from outside, and it's not among the establishment of the political parties in Europe, and they are afraid of being forced to reduce their power, and that is the opinion that I have.
		MARGARET WARNER: Austria's president formally approved the new coalition government today, after the two parties signed a declaration renouncing Austria's Nazi past and promising to adhere to European ideals of tolerance and the rule of law.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/europe/jan-june00/austria_2-3a.html (695 words)

	Austria: power struggle within Haider's Freedom Party
		The extreme right-wing Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ;) first participated in government when it formed a coalition with the conservative People’s Party (Volkspartei) in early 2000.
		Having conceded leadership of the party to his companion Riess-Passer two-and-a-half years ago for tactical reasons, Haider is now working for his return.
		Austria is a clear example of a development currently taking place throughout Europe.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2002/sep2002/aust-s02.shtml (944 words)

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