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What was clear amid the diplomacy and demagoguery last week was that the other D word--democracy--had taken a serious hit. Though E.U. leaders abhor politics based on disparaging immigrants as crime-causing, job-snatching aliens, the inclusion of Haider's party in the government means that Austria's parliament is under the influence of a substantial contingent that favors just that brand of politics. This sets a dangerous precedent for European countries besieged by immigrants willing to settle for low-paying jobs that other residents often don't want. That wave of imported workers is tilting the continent...
Shortly after formally agreeing on a new government, Jorg Haider returned to his rooftop office overlooking Vienna's Parliament buildings and spoke to TIME's Andrew Purvis and Angela Leuker...
...Haider: I expected a wave of protest. The more successful we have been, the more the socialist party organized the protest around the world against us. They told terrible stories...
...Haider: I have made some mistakes in the past, and I regret this, and I apologize for having wounded people. I have made it clear that the Freedom Party has a clear distance [from] all ideas like nationalism, national socialism...
...Haider: I think it was only one sentence out of a big debate. My opponents took out one sentence and made a campaign against me, and it was not possible for me to explain myself...