Volume 48, Number 6 · April 12, 2001
Shadows on the Danube
By J.S. Marcus
The Struggle for a Democratic Austria: Bruno Kreisky on Peace and Social Justice
edited by Matthew Paul Berg, in collaboration with Jill Lewis and Oliver Rathkolb; translated from the German by Helen Atkins and Matthew Paul Berg; with a preface by John Kenneth Galbraith
Berghahn, 565 pp., $69.95
Haider: Licht und Schatten einer Karriere [Light and Shadows of a Career]
Christa Zöchling
Vienna: Molden Verlag, 222 pp., ÖS298
Last summer, the European Court of Human Rights convened a special three-man panel led by Martti Ahtisaari, Finland's former president, and the chief negotiator of the United Nations cease-fire in Kosovo. The panel's expressed purpose was to travel to Austria and report on the 'government's commitment to the common European Values' and on 'the evolution of the political nature of the FPÖ,' or Freedom Party, Austria's controversial right-wing party and, since February 2000, the junior coalition partner in the Austrian federal government. Before the new government could be sworn in, the members of the European Union responded by imposing bilateral sanctions against Austria, a member of the EU since 1995.
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