Younger, fresher, and harder right

摘要

"Leave Haider in Carinthia!" Benita Fer-rero-Waldner, Austria's new foreign minister, urged her 14 European Union counterparts in Brussels this week, referring to the province governed by the leader of the far-right Freedom Party. "Mr Haider is not a member of the government. He does not represent Austria abroad." But the plea by Mrs Ferrero-Waldner, a member of the centre-right People's Party, fell on deaf ears. Austria's fellow EU members are refusing to reinstate bilateral political contacts with its new coalition government, half of whose members come from Mr Haider's xenophobic, Eurosceptic party.