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Haaretz
February 16, 2018
That is not credible." The FPO, which was founded by ex-Nazis in the 1950s, came third in last year's parliamentary election with 26 percent of the vote and is now a junior coalition partner to Chancellor Sebastian Kurz's conservatives. It first enjoyed mainstream success under the late Joerg Haider, whoÃÂ ...
Daily Sabah
January 3, 2018
Its then leader Joerg Haider praised Hitler's "orderly" employment policies. In Germany, the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) won 12.6 of the vote and entered parliament for the first time. Support for the AfD and its "take your country back" platform was particularly strong in eastern Germany, fueled byÃÂ ...
TRT World
December 27, 2017
This normalisation of Islamophobia has also become prevalent in Austria, where the FPO and its respective spin-off, the Alliance for the Future of Austria (BZO), under the leadership of Jorg Haider, were in government between 2005 and 2007. Pegida, an abbreviation of the Patriotic Europeans Against theÃÂ ...
Toward Freedom
December 26, 2017
He does not share the anti-European Union attitudes of the FO. Therefore, there have not been the cries of alarm which had been raised in 2000 when the FO, led by the high-profile Jorg Haider, had for the first time entered the government. At least in public, there is currently more of a “wait and see” attitudeÃÂ ...
Digital Journal
December 19, 2017
The last time the FPOe entered government, in 2000 under Joerg Haider, there was outrage across Europe that a man who praised Adolf Hitler's "orderly" employment policies could be part of an EU government. But this time, with Europe more inured to far-right parties and the FPOe appearing to haveÃÂ ...
Yahoo News
December 18, 2017
The party secured the interior ministry, to be headed by Herbert Kickl, who used to write speeches for Strache's controversial predecessor Joerg Haider, as well as defence and foreign affairs. As a 15-strong choir sang Christmas carols turned into political anthems, placards at the demonstration, with anÃÂ ...
Haaretz
December 16, 2017
... Herbert Kickl, as saying. Kickl began his career as a speechwriter for the late Joerg Haider, who praised Adolf Hitler's employment policies and led the party to its first mainstream electoral success. ... The politician is a successor of Jorg Haider and his party has Nazi and anti-Semitic roots. Critics of theÃÂ ...
Telegraph.co.uk
October 11, 2008
Austrian far-right leader Joerg Haider killed in car crash. Joerg Haider, the veteran leader of Austria's far right, was killed in a car crash today, police said. The accident occurred near Klagenfurt, capital of the province of Carinthia, where 58-. Image 1 of 2. The accident occurred near Klagenfurt, capital of theÃÂ ...
Arab News
December 31, 1999
Chairman of the Freedom Party (FPOe) Heinz-Christian Strache, who flirted with neo-Nazism in his youth, has toned down the hard-line rhetoric and expelled party members for overstepping the mark since taking over from Joerg Haider in 2005. (AFP)ÃÂ ...
U.S. News & World Report
October 17, 2017
The FPO was founded by ex-Nazis in the 1950s and first became a major political force in the 1990s under the charismatic Joerg Haider, who ...
Borneo Bulletin Online
October 17, 2017
Observers say there hasn't been this much euphoria over an Austrian politician since Joerg Haider, the magnetic but controversial FPOe leader ...
Rising Sun Chatsworth
October 16, 2017
Observers say there hasn't been this much euphoria over an Austrian politician since Joerg Haider, the magnetic but controversial FPOe leader ...
The Guardian
October 15, 2017
At the time the alliance with the far right – then led by the late, SS-admiring Joerg Haider – sparked protests and ostracised Austria.
Digital Journal
October 12, 2017
Observers say there hasn't been this much euphoria over a politician since Joerg Haider, the magnetic but controversial FPOe leader who died ...
Independent Online
September 10, 2017
Vienna - Austrian far-right leader Joerg Haider had consumed more than three times the legal alcohol limit when he crashed his car and wasÃÂ ...
gulfnews.com
September 8, 2017
... elections as his announcement came after three Freedom Party ministers stepped down in a power struggle with the influential Joerg Haider.
Telegraph.co.uk
August 1, 2010
Prosecutors from Germany, Austria and Liechtenstein found 12 shell companies whose Liechtenstein bank accounts Haider had access to,ÃÂ ...
Telegraph.co.uk
October 11, 2008
Mr Haider, 58, who earned worldwide notoriety for making statements sympathetic to Hitler's Nazi regime, suffered fatal head and chest injuriesÃÂ ...
Jacobin magazine
March 17, 2017
... in France in 1972; its electoral breakthrough in the 1984 European elections (which Beauchamp doesn't note immediately followed a round of fiscal austerity inflicted by a Socialist government); Jorg Haider's takeover of the Freedom Party in Austria ...
International Business Times UK
March 15, 2017
"My allies are not [France's Jean-Marie] Le Pen or [Austria's Jorg] Haider ... We'll never join up with the fascists and Mussolinis of Italy.
Mintpress News (blog)
March 10, 2017
In the article, Duff noted that the deaths of Chilcot Inquiry witness Richard Waddington, anti-Zionist Austrian politicians Jorg Haider and even Princess Diana all involved car crashes where the vehicle crashed into objects like concrete abutments but ...
Altre Notizie
March 9, 2017
Jorg Haider in Austria, Viktor Orban in Ungheria, Beata Szydlo in Polonia si muovono verso la disumanizzazione del diverso. Sulla divisione etnica e il rigetto del diritto internazionale sono basate le scelte nazionaliste dei nuovi regimi autoritari ...
Jamaica Observer
February 27, 2017
2000: Right wing leader Joerg Haider, criticised for his anti-foreigner statements and past praise of some Nazi-era policies, resigns as head of the Freedom Party in an apparent bid to end Austria's international ostracism following his party's rise to ...
Digital Journal
February 1, 2017
Schmidt, who stepped down in 2008, has admitted to bribing the now-deceased head of government of Austria's Carinthia state, Joerg Haider, during negotiations to buy the bank. (Source). James Crosby, former CEO Halifax. Mr. Crosby had escaped criticismÃÂ ...
Rappler
January 26, 2017
But the FPOe, formerly headed by the late Joerg Haider, got the result annulled due to procedural irregularities. A re-run set pencilled in for October had embarrassingly to be postponed because of faulty glue on postal votes.
New Europe
December 28, 2016
... to Muslims," on issues such as ritual slaughter. The Freedom Party, which narrowly lost in presidential elections earlier this month, was founded in 1956 by a Nazi SS officer.
Pakistan Observer
December 26, 2016
But the right wing parties have actually increased their popularity and are showing good results in elections. Austria is a case in point.
Mic
December 20, 2016
The first leader of the Freedom Party was former SS officer Anton Reinthaller, and Strache's direct predecessor was the late Joerg Haider, who called the Nazi camps where Jews were gassed to death "punishment facilities." "This is not just any ...
Foreign Policy (blog)
December 19, 2016
Had Hofer won, he would have been Western Europe's first elected far-right head of state since World War II (though Austria has flirted with rightists in 1999 and 2003, including the formation of coalition governments including Jorg Haider, then head ...
gulfnews.com
November 11, 2016
Not less an influential figure was Joerg Haider, the far-right populist leader of the Austria Free Party who, like Trump, used simple but brazenly Islamophobic slogans to denigrate Muslims and who at one time proclaimed: "The social order of Islam is ...
The News International
November 3, 2016
... Israel had declared Austrian politician Jorg Haider persona non grata in 2000, President of Bolivia had declared US Ambassador an unacceptable personality in 2008 and then the late President of Venezuela Hugo Chavez had declared US Ambassador anÃÂ ...
Blasting News
October 4, 2016
... discusso e discutibile Jorg Haider e che in tanti hanno definito senza mezzi termini "neonazista", aveva un ultimo ostacolo da abbattere. Alexander Van der Bellen, candidato dei Verdi, si era guadagnato il ballottaggio arrivando in scia ad Hofer ma ...
WRAL.com
September 8, 2016
While they present themselves as moderate, AfD has a "radical center that is pushing the party before it," he added. Funke said that, because it lacks a leadership figure like Joerg Haider, who led Austria's Freedom Party to success, he doesn't see AfD ...
Yahoo7 News
September 5, 2016
The next evidence of this backlash could come on October 2 in Austria, if Norbert Hofer of the Freedom Party (FPOe) -- formerly of the Nazi-admiring Joerg Haider -- wins a tight presidential election. Next year could see further electoral upsets, not ...
International Business Times UK
July 25, 2016
When the FPO's leader Jorg Haider left the Party in 2005 to found Alliance for Austria's Future (BZO), the fraternities helped rebuild the party under Strache's leadership and, in exchange, they secured the FPO's commitment to "the community of the ...
HotNews
July 20, 2016
In Austria, pe vremea cand Jorg Haider, seful dreptei nationaliste, ajungea ministru, au fost uriase manifestatii contra lui si a "fascismului". Cu efect nul sau chiar contrar, pentru ca dreapta nationalista si suveranista din Austria e aproape acum de ...
Commonweal (blog)
July 21, 2016
Imagine an American version of a Euro nationalist like France's Marine le Pen or Geert Wilders of the Netherlands, or Switzerland's Chrisoph Blocher, or the late Joerg Haider of Austria. In an America beset with racial grievances, ill-articulated class ...
Spectator.co.uk (blog)
July 15, 2016
I only got around to reading Michel Houellebecq's Submission last month, a darkly amusing book about how France destabilises as it is caught between Islamic and nativist violence.
Carolinacoastonline
June 24, 2016
In France the National Front headed by Marine Le Pen wants a vote on leaving the EU, and in Austria Norbert Hofer of Jorg Haider's Freedom Party narrowly lost his bid to become the first European nationalist head of state since World War II. In Poland ...
Imola Oggi
June 9, 2016
Il partito liberale, considerato di estrema destra da quando ne divenne leader Joerg Haider, aveva candidato alla Presidenza Norbert Hofer, che a sorpresa era arrivato al ballottaggio e poi a un soffio dalla vittoria. "Non hai bisogno di essere un ...
Haaretz
June 9, 2016
Strache's predecessor, Joerg Haider, praised Nazi employment policies and the Waffen-SS. Freedom Party lawmakers often have attended and spoken at events commemorating Nazis, including a gathering in memory of an Austria-born Nazi fighter pilot whoÃÂ ...
Telegraph.co.uk
June 8, 2016
In 2000, when the late, SS-admiring Joerg Haider's Freedom Party entered government, some 150,000 Austrians marched through Vienna to protest.
InfoVercelli24 (Comunicati Stampa) (Blog)
June 7, 2016
... che ha messo in relazione l'incidente costato la vita a Buonanno con un'altra illustre e discussa vittima della strada: il leader austriaco antieuropeista e governatore della Carinzia Joerg Haider. News collegate: Dai vigili di cartone a Vasco ...
Il Sole 24 Ore
June 4, 2016
Alla domanda se la FPOe, l'ex partito di Joerg Haider, possa contestare formalmente il risultato della votazione, che il suo candidato, Norbert Hofer ha perso per soli 31mila voti, Heinz-Christian Strache, il ledaer del partito nazionalista ha detto in ...
Haaretz
June 4, 2016
Jorg Haider, the party's previous leader, praised Nazi employment policies and the Waffen-SS. The current leader, Heinz-Christian Strache, apologized in 2012 for posting on Facebook a caricature depicting an obese, hook-nosed banker wearing star-shapedÃÂ ...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency
June 3, 2016
Jorg Haider, the party's previous leader, praised Nazi employment policies and the Waffen-SS. The current leader, Heinz-Christian Strache, apologized in 2012 for posting on Facebook a caricature depicting an obese, hook-nosed banker wearing star-shapedÃÂ ...
The Livingston Parish News
June 2, 2016
In Austria's presidential election, Norbert Hofer of Jorg Haider's Freedom Party came within an eyelash of becoming the first European nationalist head of state since World War II.
AFP (blog)
June 1, 2016
The party's success dates back to the 1990s (remember Jorg Haider? ) and it was even part of the ruling coalition between 2000 and 2006.
Stars and Stripes
May 31, 2016
Remember, far-right politicians like America's Pat Buchanan, France's Jean-Marie Le Pen and Austria's Jorg Haider were all able to score surprising victories during the relative boom times of the late 1990s and early 2000s. That's because immigration ...
The Union Leader
May 31, 2016
In Austria's presidential election, Norbert Hofer of Jorg Haider's Freedom Party came within an eyelash of becoming the first European nationalist head of state since World War II.
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