At the start of the year, Austria marked the thirtieth anniversary of its accession to the European Union in 1995. However, this celebration was soon overshadowed by the collapse of coalition negotiations among the People’s Party (ÖVP), the Social Democrats (SPÖ), and the liberal NEOS.Europe’s The talks fell apart when NEOS withdrew, quickly followed by the ÖVP. Despite a … [Read more...] about Europe’s centrists are empowering the Far Right
Normalising the Far Right: Warning signals from Austria
Although the mainstreaming of the far right is often presented as European democracies’ main contemporary challenge, in Austria this is neither new nor does it any longer surprise. Despite the country’s nationalist-socialist past and its role in the Third Reich, which led most Austrian parties at the outset to place a cordon sanitaire against the Freiheitliche Partei … [Read more...] about Normalising the Far Right: Warning signals from Austria