What Austria’s electoral results mean for EU affairs
Austria could become the latest European Union member state to have a far-right party in power after the Freedom Party (FPÖ) secured victory in Sunday’s general election.
Austria could become the latest European Union member state to have a far-right party in power after the Freedom Party (FPÖ) secured victory in Sunday’s general election.
The anti-migration, pro-Kremlin party – which was founded by former Nazis after World War II – won a general election for the first time in its history and its victory could now influence the EU at large.
“What they’re very vocal about is anti-migration. This was very strong in the past decades and again in the campaign. And one can speculate, one still must really look at these results and look at opinion polls (as to) why people voted the way they voted. But what we hear is that this migration discourse, pushing very strongly anti migration discourse, that we also seen in other European countries that seems to have worked well,” Christine Neuhold, Professor of EU Democratic Governance at Maastricht University, told Euronews.
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Source: https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2024/09/30/what-austrias-electoral-results-mean-for-eu-affairs