Gossip Craze (Free subscription) | 07/02/2009
viennanbsp joerg haider the notorious rightwing politician is set to reenter austrian national politics after his alliance for the future of austria designated him as party leader on fridayweeks before general elections in septemberhaider withdrew from national politics in 2000 when he stepped down as head of the alliance to concentrate on his job of governor of austrias southern...
Gossip Craze (Free subscription) | 05/28/2009
viennanbsp austrian farright leader joerg haider died on the way to the hospital saturday morning after the car he was driving had left the road and flipped over repeatedly officials said at apress conference in klagenfurtthe accident occured at 115 am 2315 gmt on the outskirts of klagenfurt in carinthia the province where haider was governor said ernst friesenegger the towns police...
The Rag Blog (Free subscription) | 06/09/2009
... Freedom Party, up one seat from 2004 and winning 13.4 percent of the vote.The BVO of the late Joerg Haider, a breakaway from the FPO, however was denied any representation in the European Parliament, although it did manage to win the support of 4.6 percent of voters.Together, Austria's far right won a clean 18 percent.Hungary too returned three MEPs from the Movement for the Better...
Indybay newswire (Free subscription) | 06/02/2009
... In the past, the European media have written extensively about extreme right-wing politicians like Joerg Haider in Austria and Jean-Marie Le Pen in France. But when Ariel Sharon was elected [prime minister] in Israel in 2001, the media remained silent. But in the 1980s I understood the deeply fascist thinking of these politicians. With the book I wanted to distance myself from thisRead...
