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...racist and an apologist for Nazism. He is unfairly vilified and misunderstood--or he is just plain bad. What is certain about the zig-zag course of Jorg Haider's right-wing ideology is that last week it brought him and his Freedom Party into a coalition government in Austria--and left the 14 other member countries of the European Union in a state of indignation. As Haider and his political partner, Wolfgang Schussel of the conservative People's Party, defied the wishes of Austrian President Thomas Klestil and signed their deal, the score was Demagoguery 1, Diplomacy...
...Israel, in rare forays into European domestic politics, threw in their weight, Israel by recalling its ambassador and the U.S. by bringing its ambassador home for "consultations." But some observers felt that the outside agitation merely served to bolster Haider's support--the 27% his party won in Austria's elections last October. As Anneliese Rohrer, domestic-affairs editor of the Vienna daily Die Presse, put it, "Austrians do not like to be kicked around. They are saying, 'Well, if they all hate him, he must be good.'" According to Rohrer, it would have been far worse for Haider...
...Right To Ostracize Austria...
...Austrian Isolation a Mistake" (Opinion, Feb. 8), in which you accuse the EU member states of a "reactionary frenzy" against the new government coalition between the Social Democratic Party and the Austrian Freedom Party (FP). Your argument leaves it unclear in which way the EU countries' decisions to "downgrade Austria's diplomatic status" could lead to a backlash strengthening the support for the FP. The EU's reaction has instead strengthened the backs of the thousands of Austrians marching in protest against the new government in Vienna. The fact that the two coalition parties were both "democratically elected" also does...
...Austria's poltergeists have been banging around, for example, as they do from time to time, roused by hearing a snatch of the old Nazi music. The evil nostalgia always leads to trouble, as it did with Kurt Waldheim some years ago, and now does with J?rg Haider's Freedom party...