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Austria says peackeepers may quit Golan if EU arms rebels

Date Added: Tue, 21 May 2013 18:01:38 GMT

Austria says peackeepers may quit Golan if EU arms rebels
Reuters
VIENNA (Reuters) - Austria may pull its peacekeeping troops from the Golan Heights, evacuating the U.N. buffer zone, its defence minister warned on Tuesday, as Syria and Israel exchanged fire across a long dormant frontline now inflamed by civil war.

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Austria: SMB streak no ABL title guarantee

Date Added: Tue, 21 May 2013 15:32:22 GMT

Austria: SMB streak no ABL title guarantee
Inquirer.net
San Miguel Beer may boast the league's longest winning streak, but coach Leo Austria knows the record won't matter when the Final Four of the Asean Basketball League (ABL) fires off tomorrow. The Beermen wrapped up their elimination campaign with a ...
Austria: Title, not streak, is goalManila Standard Today
Austria leaning on San Miguel big menABS CBN News
Coach of the momentPhilippine Star
Tempo
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Michael Forney signs to play 2013-14 season in Austria

Date Added: Tue, 21 May 2013 19:38:17 GMT

Michael Forney signs to play 2013-14 season in Austria
The Coloradoan
Colorado's Michael Forney passes a puck during an Eagles game in the 2012-13 season. Forney has signed to play the 2013-14 season in the Austrian hockey league. / Dawn Madura/The Coloradoan ...

Austria, Luxembourg expected to play ball in tax-evasion clampdown

Date Added: Tue, 21 May 2013 16:48:33 GMT

Economic Times

Austria, Luxembourg expected to play ball in tax-evasion clampdown
EUobserver.com
The official underlined the significance of the Austrian and Luxembourg finance ministers last week agreeing to give a mandate to the European Commission for savings tax deals with Switzerland, Andorra, Liechtenstein, Monaco and San Marino.
Luxembourg will meet US tax-law requirements - The Business TimesBusiness Times (subscription)

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Austria adopts bank insolvency law

Date Added: Tue, 21 May 2013 15:12:09 GMT

Austria adopts bank insolvency law
Global Times
The Austrian government adopted a draft bank insolvency law on Tuesday that would give the state more powers to intervene early at struggling lenders. This would allow the government to head off worse problems that could require taxpayer support.

Huge debate over multilingualism in Austria

Date Added: Tue, 21 May 2013 10:27:36 GMT

Huge debate over multilingualism in Austria
Austrian Times
Huge debate over multilingualism in Austria. Possible projects for a "multilingual oriented educational concept" have led to a debate in Vienna. The SPÖ, ÖVP and FPÖ are currently discussing the two sides of the issue: "multilingualism as a chance" and ...

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dcinex Appoints Christof Federle as New Country General Manager for Austria ...

Date Added: Tue, 21 May 2013 16:47:47 GMT

dcinex Appoints Christof Federle as New Country General Manager for Austria ...
DCinemaToday (press release)
dcinex is proud to welcome Mr. Christof Federle, former CFO of Cinecom Austria and CEO of Cinecom Systems. Mr Federle will manage the Austrian company dcinex GmbH in Vienna as well as supervise the dcinex offices in Croatia, Romania & Hungary.

Iglo Austria Achieves Target of 100% MSC Certified Ocean-Caught Fish

Date Added: Tue, 21 May 2013 13:15:45 GMT

FIS

Iglo Austria Achieves Target of 100% MSC Certified Ocean-Caught Fish
FIS
Iglo Austria has been engaged in promoting conservation of the oceans' natural ecosystems for years. As part of the Unilever group it helped set up the MSC programme with the WWF over 15 years ago. Iglo was one of the first frozen food companies to do ...

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Moody's affirms Kommunalkredit Austria's Baa3/P-3 ratings

Date Added: Tue, 21 May 2013 19:55:40 GMT

Moody's affirms Kommunalkredit Austria's Baa3/P-3 ratings
Moodys.com (press release) (registration)
Frankfurt am Main, May 21, 2013 -- Moody's Investors Service has today affirmed at Baa3 the senior unsecured debt and deposit ratings of Kommunalkredit Austria AG (KA). At the same time, the rating agency lowered KA's baseline credit assessment (BCA ...

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Development Bank of Austria Partner to Hike up the Sustainable Energy ...

Date Added: Tue, 21 May 2013 14:21:30 GMT

Austrian Tribune

Development Bank of Austria Partner to Hike up the Sustainable Energy ...
Austrian Tribune
IFC declared a contract with Oesterreichische Entwicklungsbank (OeEB), the Development Bank of Austria to hike up the sustainable energy investment in Sub-Saharan Africa initiating with the countries of Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and Rwanda. IFC is a ...


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COALITION DISINTEGRATION MAY PUT HAIDER BACK IN FRONT

Date Added: Sunday, September 8th, 2002
Contributed by: RCN Administrator
Three members of Austria’s far-right Freedom Party -- Vice President Susanne Riess-Passer, Finance Minister Karl-Heinz Grasser and Transport Minister Mathias Reichhold -- resigned Sept. 8 and 9 due to a tax cut dispute with party founder Joerg Haider. The party’s parliamentary speaker joined these members in resigning from his post as well, and the split caused conservative Austrian Chancellor Wolfgang Schuessel to call for early elections.

The four officials comprised the most PR-friendly batch of leaders the Freedom Party could muster, as Haider -- who has caused controversy with his sympathetic remarks about the Third Reich -- had been forced to give up his chairmanship in order for the party to be admitted into the government coalition. But he has remained its dominant personality since the party’s foundation in the 1970s.

As representatives of the junior partner in Austria’s governing coalition, the Freedom Party’s ministers have been unable to dictate the direction of government policy. And Haider has progressively upped his criticism of them in recent months, as well as formed a wedge between himself and the ministers by discussing party strategy and policy with others -- including Schuessel -- without notifying Riess-Passer.

The break became a full breach last week when the ministers insisted that the emergency costs of dealing with last month’s catastrophic floods throughout Europe would necessitate delaying promised tax cuts. Haider, who led the successful October 1999 election campaign that saw the Freedom Party garner 27 percent of the vote, disagreed.

The back-and-forth tussling between Riess-Passer, the former official chair of the Freedom Party, and Haider, the de facto head, ended with Riess-Passer’s resignation. Schuessel, long fed up with the Freedom Party’s unpredictability, promptly announced he would recommend his own party withdraw from the governing coalition.

The likely snap elections that could take place in November set the stage for an electoral showdown between the disorganized Freedom Party, Schuessel’s center-right People’s Party and the opposition Greens and Social Democrats. A recent Gallup poll gave the Social Democrats 37 percent of voter support, followed by the People’s Party with 29 percent, the Freedom Party with 20 percent and the Greens with 12 percent.

Before the Freedom Party gained a seat at the government table, a coalition between the Social Democrats and the People’s Party ruled Austria for most of the post-WWII period. A re-occurrence of such a development, or a Social Democrats/Green coalition, is the likely outcome of the snap elections.

Although Haider is a shoo-in to be re-elected as chairman at the Freedom Party’s Oct. 20 convention, since there are no credible alternatives, the loss of four leaders will make it very difficult for him to pull his party back together in time to make a strong showing.

That is very good news for the rest of Europe. Whoever wins the next round of elections will be the voice for Austria as the European Union accepts 10 new states in 2004. A Chancellor Haider would almost assuredly veto the expansion on principle. The other three parties support the expansion, albeit with qualifications.

In the mid-term, the Freedom Party will continue to follow the path of other nationalist movements in Western democracies. Like New Zealand First, Australia’s One Nation and France’s National Front, the Freedom Party has had its moment in the sun, but it has failed to directly shape policies at the national level. Of the other three, only New Zealand First holds any seats in the national parliament.

But the likely evisceration of the Freedom Party’s official representation in the parliament in November does not mean nationalist issues have disappeared from Austria’s political dialogue. Haider needs time to regroup, and his political history clearly shows that his party will be back in the spotlight in the future.

The only way his political opponents could truly weaken him permanently would be to co-opt his followers. But while French President Jacques Chirac and Australian Prime Minister John Howard have proven quite slick in their adoption of nationalist rhetoric (and policy) to absorb the far right into their own more mainstream parties, that appears less likely in Austria.

Only the center-right People’s Party could have a chance at making inroads in the right-wing community, but its past failure to do just that allowed the Freedom Party to get into power in the first place.

Haider may be down, but he most certainly will be back. And with the more moderate elements of his party now on the outs, the Freedom Party’s loudest and proudest days may be yet to come.
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