Word: austria
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...government by withdrawing his support in 1994, he again joined Il Cavaliere's center-right electoral coalition and was said to be slated for a prominent cabinet post. That prospect prompted some European officials to consider hitting Italy with the same kind of E.U. sanctions that were clamped on Austria after Jörg Haider's far-right party joined the government in February...
...Minister José María Aznar, a longtime personal friend and political ally of Berlusconi, predicted that the "closeness" between them would make Spanish-Italian "bilateral relations grow even stronger." No European rightist took greater personal satisfaction than Haider, who remarked that "the E.U. burned its fingers with Austria and doesn't want that to happen again with Italy...
...Berlusconi's election what they want to read into it," says Dominique Moïsi, deputy director of the French Institute of International Relations in Paris. "Conservatives are pleased to see the right back in power, the left is happy over Bossi's defeat and the avoidance of an Austria-style scenario. Yet everybody also realizes that Italy is a special case - that Berlusconi is unique, in a uniquely Italian situation...
...Party, would create a new European legislative chamber to take the place of the Council of Ministers, and would give the European Parliament total control over the European Union budget. France's European Affairs Minister, Pierre Moscovici, summarily rejected the plan. Belgium, Italy and the Netherlands reacted positively, but Austria and Denmark warned against the creation of an E.U. "superstate...
...consensus among U.N. diplomats is that the U.S. appeared to have taken its reelection for granted, and failed to lobby for support to secure one of the three seats on the commission allocated to Western nations (it was ultimately shut out by France, Sweden and Austria). But many traditional U.S. supporters clearly withdrew their votes in order to signal their displeasure at the increasingly go-it-alone stance of the U.S. Their grievances are not confined to Washington's delinquent habits when it comes to paying its dues to the international body - some $580 million in arrears is still tied...