Wolfgang Schussel

                   
spiegel.de: Jörg Haider, right, came to power in Vienna in the '90s as a xenophobic hero of Austria's far right. He's seen here with Wolfgang Schüssel, head of the center-right Austrian People's Party (ÖVP). spiegel.de

The Austrian Far Right: A Grand Coalition Fails, Leaving Room for Radicals

spiegel.de     Jul 18, 2008   1 related          

Austrian Chancellor Alfred Gusenbauer's term in office has ended in fiasco, amid infighting, tactical errors and his own overestimation of himself. The populist, far-right Freedom Party will benefit: It has good prospects in...                

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A grand unravelling

economist.com     Jul 10, 2008          

One grand coalition in a German-speaking country falls apartAUSTRIA'S predilection for grand coalitions, which have governed the country for much of the post-war era, may be ending. This week its current left-right alliance...                

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The luck of the Irish

agoravox.com     Jun 17, 2008   2,357 related          

The Irish deserve to be commended: In voting against the Lisbon Treaty, they have voted for democracy and against authoritarianism as well as totalitarianism. The treaty was merely an attempt by the corrupt Brussels elite to...                

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Bertie Ahern will not be President of Europe.

dailyreferendum.blogspot.com     Jun 14, 2008   1 related          

From William Hill:Bookies Push Out Bertie's Odds To Become European Council PresidentWilliam Hill believe that Ireland’s NO vote in the Lisbon Treaty have effectively ended Bertie Ahern’s chances of becoming the first permanent...                

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Staufer Gold Medal for Dr. Wolfgang Porsche

autospectator.com     Jun 13, 2008   3 related          

By admin - Posted on June 13th, 2008 Award for Services to the Federal State of Baden- Dr. Wolfgang Porsche, Managing Partner and Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Porsche Automobil Holding SE and of Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche...                

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A woman's place?

economist.com     May 29, 2008   1 related          

Why the European Union has so few women on topIS THE European Union at heart a female project? Margot Wallstrom, a vice-president and thus the most senior woman in the European Commission, rather thinks so. She points to the EU's fondness for compromise and listening, and its rejection of horrid...                

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The Race for President of the United State of Europe: Blair Out

brusselsjournal.com     May 7, 2008   12 related          

A quote from the BBC, 6 May 2008 Nicolas Sarkozy has withdrawn his backing of Tony Blair to become the first president of the European Union, senior sources have told the BBC. The French president is understood to have changed his mind after meeting German Chancellor Angela Merkel. It is thought...                

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Place your bets, ladies and gentlemen

eureferendum.blogspot.com     May 6, 2008          

The time has come for everyone to start placing their bets on who is going to be the “EU President” or, to be quite precise, the President of the European Council. Who actually walks the corridors of power (well, semi-power as the President of the Commission will still be...                

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Dashing Dane Anders Fogh Rasmussen favourite for president of EU

freerepublic.com     May 6, 2008   2 related          

A dashing Dane with his own Facebook page has emerged as the favourite to thwart the ambitions of Bertie Ahern and Tony Blair of becoming the first “president of Europe”. Anders Fogh Rasmussen, the Liberal Prime Minister of Denmark since 2001, has been described by Silvio Berlusconi, the Prime...                

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Euro-MP urged support for Iranian opposition (PMOI/MEK) in Strasbourg's seminar on Iran

ncr-iran.org     May 1, 2008   2 related          

NCRI- Mr. Struan Stevenson, Vice-President of the EPP-ED group at the European Parliament and joint Chair of the Friends of a Free Iran (FOFI) Intergroup at the EP, in a speech called on European countries to remove the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) from terror list and...                

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