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Austria round-up

Feb 21, 2018 22:22

Austrian president rebukes far-right leader over media jibe

VIENNA (Reuters) - Austria’s president rebuked the far-right deputy head of government on Friday for accusing the national broadcaster and one of its journalists of lying.

Heinz-Christian Strache, who led the anti-Islam Freedom Party (FPO) to third place in last year’s parliamentary ( Read more... )

media, important issues, austria, anti-semitism

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flake_sake February 24 2018, 21:16:58 UTC

Fuck our government. The good thing is they are quarreling about the non-smoker campaign now. It has already started, they will fall appart before they can destroy everything. Hopefully.

Anyone from Austria who has not done so yet, please support the Women's demands and the Don't smoke campaign.

hobbits_friend February 27 2018, 17:53:16 UTC

Kurz and Strache are both too power-hungry to let anything get in their way :/
While I never had (any) high hopes I'm still surprised how quickly they fuck everything up.

flake_sake February 28 2018, 07:34:13 UTC

The real shit will start, once the Vienna election is over. What they are doing now is bad enough though. All the cuts for unemployed people are terrible.

I hope the FPÖ will continue to lose compared to the polls (here in Tirol they were over 20% in the polls and then only 15,5% in the election). The more often this happens, the sooner they will start to oppose the government from within.

I also hope the Greens will make it back or the Pilz party will come to life. We really need a strong opposition now.