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2 articles of this author have been cited in the European Press Review so far.
Not all Austrians are corrupt
The commission of enquiry tasked with investigating corruption affairs during the term of office of former Austrian chancellor Wolfgang Schüssel began its work on Thursday. In addition to Schüssel, who belongs to the conservative ÖVP, Austria's social democrats also face various charges of corruption. Corruption is apparently part and parcel of Austrian politics, writes the liberal-conservative daily Die Presse: "Either only those people become politicians who right from the start intend to use every opportunity that presents itself for their own personal ends, or those who started out as idealists are gradually corrupted by the system. ... Certainly, that doesn't hold for everyone. Nevertheless it's astonishing that despite the risk of being caught - most often when one is no longer in power or no longer has the power to prevent it - politicians continually dare to play fast and loose with the rule of law which also - and especially - applies to them."
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University protests for the sake of protest
Today is International Students' Day and all over the world students are demonstrating against cuts in education budgets. The daily Die Presse compares today's student protests in Austria with the student protests against Nazi terror in Prague in 1939, which today is intended to commemorate, and finds few similarities. On 17 November 1939 the Nazis arrested thousands of Czech students in Prague and deported them to concentration camps: "Right from the start it was obvious that, driven by a left-wing vocal minority, the demands of those occupying lecture halls go far beyond student concerns. And actually they are wide of the mark - as a recent survey conducted by the Institute for Youth Culture Research shows. 23 percent of the respondents actually supported regulating university entry, while the more general ideological issues - education instead of training (1 percent), socio-political measures (2 percent), democratisation of universities (3 percent), free access to higher education (7 percent) - are of little interest to the vast majority of students. Whereas the demonstrations seventy years ago were about life and death, today many students are protesting just for the sake of it."
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