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Austria: Christian Democrats Sign Pact With Freedom Party
Published in Radio Free Europe - Indexed on Aug 6, 2002
Austrian conservative leader Wolfgang Schuessel and far-rightist Joerg Haider yesterday signed a declaration setting out the responsibilities of their proposed coalition government. But RFE/RL's Jolyon Naegele reports that Austria's president says he still needs time to review the proposals before he grants his approval. Prague, 3 February 2000 (RFE/RL) -- The declaration, entitled "Responsibility for Austria -- A future in the heart of Europe" is an attempt to placate concerns -- those of Austrian president Thomas Klestil, of the international community, and above all of the European Community, of which Austria is a member.

EU: Union In Line Of Fire As Election Dramas Unfold
Published in Radio Free Europe - Indexed on Aug 6, 2002
Email this article to a friend EU: Union In Line Of Fire As Election Dramas Unfold By Breffni O'Rourke The surprising success of French far-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen in reaching the presidential election runoff has put the European Union directly in the firing line. Nationalist Le Pen rejects ceding authority from Paris to Brussels. His comments, though often more extreme, reflect those of other politicians elsewhere in the EU. What is happening to the bonds between the EU and its constituent states?

Western Press Review: Haider And Davos Draw Western Commentary
Published in Radio Free Europe - Indexed on Jun 17, 2002
In the editorial's words: "Mr. Haider's party, like others of its ilk in Europe, exploits the vestigial human fear of foreigners with emotional language." The newspaper adds these thoughts: "The EU's mostly socialist and statist leaders are missing something. The most powerful pro-immigration and enlargement arguments rely on a free-market idea of political and economic life. Their own states hardly meet that requirement, though they're moving in that direction. The ability of a man or woman to get up and move, besides being one of the bedrocks of liberty and a powerful check on tyranny, has the added advantage of being economic good sense.

Janice Duclos, Bathed in The Light of a Silvery 'Moon' (washingtonpost.com)
Published in Washington Post - Indexed on Jun 11, 2002
As Josie Hogan, the pig farmer's daughter in "A Moon for the Misbegotten," Janice Duclos gives a bighearted, earthy, vulnerable performance at Arena Stage. (The Eugene O'Neill play runs through Sunday.) "This role is a role to die for, because you use everything you've ever learned as an actor," Duclos observed last week. Josie carries a torch for James Tyrone Jr., the erudite alcoholic swain who owns the land she and her rascally Irish father live on. "I think that she holds out a hope, like many women do, that her love can change this man," observed the actress, "which certainly gives it a very modern slant." A Providence, R.I.

BBC News | EUROPE | European press review
Published in BBC News - Indexed on Jun 11, 2002
"Even before the EU commission made its decision, the consumers voted with their feet and started boycotting expensive organic foods, which have now proved just as vulnerable as conventional products," says the Sueddeutsche Zeitung. "If I'm going to endanger my health, I don't want to pay through the nose for it, seems to be what they're saying." "But why should organic farming be the only sector where there are no black sheep, no mistakes or even criminal impulses"? Berlin's Tagesspiegel says the ban could be a blessing in disguise, as it has galvanized the German authorities into action.

A once politically correct Europe is now not afraid to talk of its fears. And for the left, it's a turn for the worse.
Published in ABC News.com - Indexed on May 23, 2002
A flamboyant politician who combined an openly gay lifestyle with hard-line anti-immigrant views, the dapper, smooth-pated former sociology professor was the black sheep of Dutch politics until he was shot dead May 6 outside a television studio in Rotterdam. But while his public life was crammed with controversy after shocking controversy, in death Fortuyn seemed to have touched a spot in his nation's indeed his continent's soul.

All the important news from Austria from 4 October to 8 October 1999.
Published in Central Europe Review - Indexed on May 22, 2002
C E N T R A L E U R O P E A N N E W S: News Review for Austria All the important news from Austria since 4 October 1999 Magali Perrault The outcome and implications of the general elections on Sunday 3 October were of course the most important issue in Austria last week. The main winner of the elections was Joerg Haider's Freedom Party (FPO), which gained 12 seats more than in 1995 and narrowly overtook the conservative People's Party (OVP) as the second political formation in the country (53 seats against 52 and 27.22 versus 26.90 percent of the votes).

All the important news from Austria from 16 October to 22 October 1999.
Published in Central Europe Review - Indexed on May 22, 2002
Austrian political parties and leaders are now actively involved in negotiations over the formation of a new governmental program and coalition. On Monday, the leader of the OVP (People's Party) and incumbent foreign minister, Wolfgang Schuessel, stated during a press conference that Europe and the necessity for a "new quality of democracy" (the end of the Proporz system?!) were among the topics that his party intended to raise during the discussions.

All the important news from Austria from 13 November to 19 November 1999.
Published in Central Europe Review - Indexed on May 22, 2002
The demonstration against racism and Joerg Haider's Freedom Party (FPO) held on Friday 12 November in Vienna was, according to its organisers, a success. The number of demonstrators was estimated at 70,000. The organisers also pledged to continue their campaign for the adoption of an anti-discrimination law and "passive" voting rights for foreigners in certain specific local or firm-level elections. On Monday, the first face-to-face meeting between the Social Democrat (SPO) Chancellor Viktor Klima and Joerg Haider took place.

Dutch poll flags right turn in Europe - MAY 17, 2002
Published in The Straits Times - Indexed on May 17, 2002
Gains for the far right in Holland's national elections yesterday are seen as indicating broader, European concerns PARIS - Commentators around Europe read wider significance into the results of the Dutch parliamentary elections yesterday, viewing what one newspaper called a 'tidal wave' of support for the right as part of a continent-wide trend. Analysts also saw the success of the Pim Fortuyn's List party, an extreme-right group that was unknown a year ago, as reflecting both a new volatility on the part of European electorates as well as the increasing respectability of anti-immigration views.

BBC News | EUROPE | Analysis: The rise of the European right
Published in BBC News - Indexed on Apr 23, 2002
Mr Le Pen's success shows that if the mainstream political parties fail to deal with domestic issues, there are other plenty of extreme groups ready to pick them up "Hit by a thunderbolt" was how one Italian newspaper put it; another said it was a warning to the whole of Europe and a lesson to be heeded. European politicians are certainly trying to work out what lessons are applicable to them. That means first of all disentangling the specifically French reasons for Mr Le Pen's success. Phenomenal He is a powerful campaigner, experienced and adept at working the crowds.

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Published in News.Com.Au (Australia) - Indexed on Feb 17, 2002
PRESSURE has grown on Austria's controversial coalition government after the far-right Freedom Party's strongman Joerg Haider abandoned national politics. Haider announced his surprise withdrawal from national politics today, amid growing strains in his party brought to a head by a row over his recent trip to Iraq. Freedom Party (FPOe) leader and Vice-Chancellor Susanne Riess-Passer cut short a trip to Washington today to return to Vienna after the surprise announcement.

ABCNEWS.com : Austria Slams Official for Iraq Trip
Published in ABC News.com - Indexed on Feb 15, 2002
VIENNA, Austria Feb. 13 Austrian right-winger Joerg Haider was blasted from several sides Wednesday after visiting Iraq and claiming Austria feels solidarity with the Arab country. The visit was "clearly unnecessary, unhelpful, and counterproductive," Foreign Minister Benita Ferrero-Waldner said in Paris. Caspar Einem, a leader of the opposition Social Democrats and a former Austrian interior minister, expressed alarm that Haider's statements appeared to clash with "the uniform attitude of the international community toward Iraq." An official Iraqi newspaper reported that Haider demanded during a meeting with Saddam Hussein that U.N.

Anti-Semitism in the Egyptian Media; Part I: Holocaust Denial
Published in Middle East Media Research Institute - Indexed on Nov 25, 2001
Part I: Holocaust Denial Recent international events relating to the memory of the Holocaust, the election of Joerg Haider in Austria, and Israel’s reaction to Hizbullah’s activity in South Lebanon have significantly increased the anti-Semitic rhetoric in both the government and opposition Egyptian press. Crematoriums Never Existed In an article in the government daily Al-Gumhuriya, columnist Dr. Lutfi Nasef denies that crematoriums ever existed.