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3 articles of this author have been cited in the European Press Review so far.
Schüssel leaves a dangerous legacy
The former Austrian chancellor Wolfgang Schüssel of the Austrian People's Party may have left politics, but he leaves the field to a strong and anti-European Right, writes the left-liberal daily Der Standard: "The Schüssel era was destined to come to a terrible end. He ennobled the right-wing party with a strong extremist element, making it the ruling party, with the logical consequence that today it consists of nothing but extremists. No wonder Schüssel, their mentor, attaches such importance to going down in history as a great European, of all things. He speaks honeyed words of Europe but in his own country he has made the weak nationalists who don't even know whether they want to be Austrian or German nationalists strong and reputable. ... [Moreover] no one has done more damage to the idea of privatisation than its thin-lipped ideologist. And no one has promoted the anti-Europeans in Austria more effectively than this man who calls himself a passionate European."
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More from the press review on the subject » Domestic Policy, » Politics, » Austria
Karl-Markus Gauß on minorities as the avant-garde
Smaller nationalities and other minorities are the avant-garde of Europe, says writer Karl-Markus Gauß in his speech accepting the Central Europe Prize. They have managed "to define themselves to some extent as national and cultural multiple personalities," Gaus explains in the speech reprinted by the newspaper. "The first lesson we have to draw is something they have mastered long ago – it is part of their historical, primal experience: that you only have a future if you don't try to maintain a kind of assiduous forgetfulness of the past. ... If they give up their collective memory, if they give up any interest in how they became what they are, they've already lost. They simply can't tolerate the feeling of losing consciousness; they have to believe that their continued existence depends not only on their enemies or on global influences, but more so upon their own passion, perseverance, pride."
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More from the press review on the subject » EU Policy, » Minorities, » History, » Europe
Karl-Markus Gauß on the eastwards expansion of the West
Austrian journalist and essayist Karl-Markus Gauß has made a name for himself with his travel reportage on Central and South-East Europe. In an interview with Harald Klauhs and Norbert Mayer he voices the opinion that Europe has grown together only from an economic point of view. "Unfortunately, world history is not taking the course I would like to see it take. That's the bad thing about it. Incidentally, I consider eastern expansion to be a misleading expression because what we are seeing is a western expansion in the sense that the West is gobbling up the East economically. As an Austrian I find it somewhat bizarre that we complain that Eastern Europeans are taking away our jobs. There are entire countries where virtually every petrol station is owned by Austrians and all the banks are at least partially in Austrian hands. We're buying up the East yet at the same time we're trying to keep workers from the East out. This inevitably generates resentment on both sides."
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More from the press review on the subject » EU enlargement, » Eastern Europe, » Western Europe
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