Far right wants Austria to join group of anti-immigrant states

[Crn Volk]

https://www.geo.tv/latest/161927-far...migrant-states


Far right wants Austria to join group of anti-immigrant states

VIENNA: The far-right Freedom Party (FPO) — set to become kingmaker after elections on October 15 — wants Austria to join the Visegrad Group of central and east European states opposed to immigration.

Eurosceptic leaders in Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia have refused migrant quotas approved by a western-dominated majority of European Union (EU) member states. They also reject proposed EU reforms that would transfer more power from national governments to Brussels institutions.

The FPO — likely to be a part of Austria’s next ruling coalition — also wants a more decentralized EU.

“We will… strengthen contact with the Visegrad states and it would be nice and good if we could maybe even become a member of the Visegrad Group,” FPO chief Heinz-Christian Strache said in an election debate with Social Democrat Chancellor Christian Kern focusing on curbing migrant flows and Brussels’ powers.

The Freedom Party and centre-left Social Democrats are fighting for second place in Sunday’s election with both commanding about 25 percent of the vote in the latest polls.

The Freedom Party appears ticketed for a place in the next coalition given that the conservative People’s Party’s rating of around 33 percent is unlikely to improve enough for an absolute majority, and bitter disputes between the two centrist parties.

Conservative leader Sebastian Kurz has, like Strache, praised far-right Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban for building a border fence to keep migrants out of EU territory.

To avoid losing votes, Austria’s mainstream conservatives have drifted recently towards the FPO’s anti-immigration positions and joined calls to shrink and refocus the EU’s powers.

Jean-Claude Juncker — the head of the European Commission — has invited Visegrad Group leaders to a meeting on October 18 to try to ease tensions between them and wealthier western Europe.

[Magnolia]

It is a pragmatic solution. Austria is a small countries, if they want to survive they have to inclinate to V4.
Btw. they have had these tendencies for a long time...

[Crn Volk]

It is a pragmatic solution. Austria is a small countries, if they want to survive they have to inclinate to V4.
Btw. they have had these tendencies for a long time...

Yeah, I know but it's interesting that the media only discover it after Kurz's win

[B01AB20]

Most of west countries are not that far for Visegrad group in facts.

Spain for example has only admitted 17% of refugees she had accepted on paper, as many other countries.

I think EU burocrats are starting to accept that europeans voters don't want all those refugees.

[Gold-Shekel]

The Austro-Hungarian empire is forming itself again.

[Crn Volk]

The Austro-Hungarian empire is forming itself again.

I guess they're readying themselves for the demise of the EU...

[Gold-Shekel]

I guess they're readying themselves for the demise of the EU...

I don't really care about those fascist nations of "central Europe". They'll either get crushed by Germany or by Russia. The EU would have been better off without those poor nations.

[Magnolia]

I don't really care about those fascist nations of "central Europe". They'll either get crushed by Germany or by Russia. The EU would have been better off without those poor nations.

Are you jealous?

[Dick]

Pardon my ignorance on the matter, I dont follow European politics anymore, but Austria now has a right-wing government?

[Manuel]

Pardon my ignorance on the matter, I dont follow European politics anymore, but Austria now has a right-wing government?

Well, not yet but the young dude with the satellite-like ears won so, soon to be.