Word: jorg
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...right things. In some eyes he is merely a brash, Porsche-driving, bungee-jumping populist politician. In others he is a racist and an apologist for Nazism. He is unfairly vilified and misunderstood--or he is just plain bad. What is certain about the zig-zag course of Jorg Haider's right-wing ideology is that last week it brought him and his Freedom Party into a coalition government in Austria--and left the 14 other member countries of the European Union in a state of indignation. As Haider and his political partner, Wolfgang Schussel of the conservative People...
Shortly after formally agreeing on a new government, Jorg Haider returned to his rooftop office overlooking Vienna's Parliament buildings and spoke to TIME's Andrew Purvis and Angela Leuker...
...Klestil's own moderate Social-Democratic Party and the middle-right People's Party failed, Klestil was left no choice but to give his reluctant consent to a coalition between the People's Party and the far-right Austrian Freedom Party, headed by outspoken xenophobe and former Nazi apologist, Jorg Haider. Although Haider himself will not hold office in the new government, his party controls six ministerial positions, including those in the highly sensitive areas of justice and defense...
...Austria's people, not its political establishment, that wanted the radical right-wing in power - and Austria being a democracy, they got their way despite unprecedented international pressure to keep Jorg Haider's Freedom party out of government. President Thomas Klestil Thursday agreed to swear in a coalition government Friday comprising the mainstream conservative People's party and the anti-immigrant populist party led by a man whose previous statements sympathetic to Third Reich policies and to the notorious Waffen SS have caused Israel, the U.S. and European countries to threaten to isolate Austria. "President Klestil admitted yesterday that...
...Nazi; he's just a good old xenophobic, right-wing demagogue. Ignoring European Union warnings against allowing Jorg Haider's Freedom party into government, Austrian politicians moved Tuesday toward concluding a coalition agreement between the anti-immigrant party and the mainstream conservative People's party. Haider's previous statements sympathetic to the Third Reich's employment policies and his reference to the Waffen SS as "men of character and conviction" have had European politicians threatening diplomatic isolation if the Freedom party is allowed into government...