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Government of Austria. A brief overview over the austrian government andpolitics system by Austrian Press and Information Service, including
http://austrian-politics.com/government/
Albright Comments On Austrian Government Feb. 8
02/08/00. Text Albright Comments on austrian government Feb. 8. (Pressstakeout following testimony on 2001 foreign affairs budget).
http://www.usembassy.it/file2000_02/alia/a0020809.htm

Extractions: Text: Albright Comments on Austrian Government Feb. 8 (Press stakeout following testimony on 2001 foreign affairs budget) Secretary of State Madeleine Albright continued to express concern with the role of Jorg Haider's Freedom Party in Austria's government in remarks February 8 to reporters following her testimony at a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on President Clinton's fiscal year 2001 foreign affairs budget request. "When a country such as that has an election in which there has been an appeal to some policies which are repugnant re-statements about World War II or immigration policies or minority policies that are not within the mainstream of where Europe is going I think it is troublesome," she said. While stressing Austria's autonomy in elections, Albright said "Americans have a right to react" to Haider's statements. "The Europeans did also." Following is the text of Albright's comments:
A Westside Woman Fights For Her Legacy -- February 25, 2001
Also overlooked has been the intransigence of the austrian government in returningart stolen by the Nazis to their rightful owners, one of whom lives on the
http://www.robertscheer.com/2_localla/01_columns/022501.htm

Extractions: Adolf Hitler was born in Austria, which should not detract from the Museum of Contemporary Art's gala opening Saturday night of the work of Austrian-born architect R.M. Schindler, an exhibit sponsored by the Austrian consul general. Schindler left Austria in 1914, the same year my German Protestant father, like Schindler, emigrated to the United States, decades before Hitler's rise to power. But the enduring stain of German society at its nadir remains, and that Nazism engulfed Austria has been all too easily overlooked. Also overlooked has been the intransigence of the Austrian government in returning art stolen by the Nazis to their rightful owners, one of whom lives on the Westside. This connection is critical because an important trial dealing with art stolen from Austrian Jews during the Hitler years will begin March 19, and an L.A. judge, Florence-Marie Cooper, must decide whether to accept a motion by the Austrian government to dismiss the claims of victims of Nazi theft. One of the most prominent of those victims, Maria Altmann of Cheviot Hills, is among the plaintiffs seeking to have the art their families owned returned to them.
ICL - Austria - Treaty Of Saint-Germain - Part III
(4) Notwithstanding any establishment by the austrian government of an officiallanguage, adequate facilities shall be given to Austrian nationals of non
http://www.oefre.unibe.ch/law/icl/au05000_.html

Extractions: Austria undertakes that the stipulations contained in this Section shall be recognized as fundamental laws, and that no law, regulation, or official action shall conflict or interfere with these stipulations, nor shall any law, regulation, or official action prevail over them. Article 63 [No Discrimination, Religion] Austria admits and declares to be Austrian nationals ipso facto and without the requirement of any formality all persons possessing at the date of the coming into force of the present Treaty rights of citizenship within Austrian territory who are not nationals of any other State. Article 65 [Citzenship by Birth]
Roma Rights / Nr 1, 2000 -- Snapshots From Around Europe
snapshots from around Europe. Racist party in the austrian government.On January 21, 2000, 110 days after the Austrian general election
http://www.errc.org/rr_nr1_2000/snap15.shtml

Extractions: cover contents editorial snapshots from around Europe ... chronicle On January 21, 2000, 110 days after the Austrian general election on October 3, 1999, coalition talks between the two major centre parties Austrian Social Democratic Party and the Austrian Peoples Party collapsed and Austrian President Thomas Klestil asked the heads of the Austrian Peoples Party and racist Freedom Party of Austria to form a government. Freedom Party leader Jörg Haider, so controversial that he is not represented in the government, has made anti-Romani statements in the past. In the wake of a bomb attack in the Austrian town of Oberwart which killed four Romani men, Haider made comments implying that the Romani men might have been involved in activity which led to the bombing. (See ERRC country report Divide and Deport: Roma and Sinti in Austria). During parliamentary debate following the bombing, he additionally referred to World War II concentration camps as prison camps. The Freedom Party ran their 1999 electoral campaign on generally anti-foreigner and anti-immigration themes. (ERRC)
Vienna Report
When the Freedom Party became part of the austrian government, the questionarose whether or not the meeting should be moved or cancelled.
http://www.aslonline.org/info-reports-vienna.html

Extractions: For Advertisers This is a report from ASL President Donald A. Martin on a decision made during March, 2000, by the ASL Council to hold the 2001 ASL European Summer Meeting (Logic Colloquium 2001) in Vienna, Austria as scheduled. Supporting documents considered by the Council during its discussion were as follows: It should be emphasized that these documents are as they were seen by the Council during its discussion. For later developments or further comments by the involved individuals, the indicated links given above should be followed. When the Freedom Party became part of the Austrian government, the question arose whether or not the meeting should be moved or cancelled. A letter urging that the meeting be moved, a letter signed by more than 90 logicians, was sent by Anand Pillay to the ASL President and Council and to the ASL Committee on Logic in Europe. The letter argued that holding the meeting would be counted as an endorsement of the Austrian government, that many logicians would be politically or personally uncomfortable about going to the Vienna meeting, and that the meeting would be unsuccessful because many logicians would not attend.
SIGNING OF AUSTRIAN LABOR AGREEMENT REMARKS OF STUART E. EIZENSTAT
The austrian government and Austrian companies have courageously come to terms withinjuries to laborers they caused and that have remained largely unaddressed
http://www.usembassy.at/en/policy/rest2.htm

Extractions: October 24, 2000 Mr. Chancellor, Madame Vice-Chancellor Riess-Passer, Leaders from the Austrian Parliament including President Dr. Heinz Fischer, Dr. Van der Bellen, Dr. Kostelka, Dr. Kessler representing the private sector, Ambassador Winkler and Excellencies from Belarus, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Ukraine as well. The Austrian Government and Austrian companies have courageously come to terms with injuries to laborers they caused and that have remained largely unaddressed for 55 years. In so doing, they are providing a measure of justice, however belatedly and albeit for a small fraction of victims who survived, but justice nevertheless for the elderly survivors of slave and forced labor in the territory of present-day Austria. I commend the Austrian Government, under the inspired leadership of Chancellor Schüssel and my wonderful colleague, Maria Schaumayer a great Austrian patriot for moving swiftly to draft the legislation establishing the Austrian Reconciliation Fund and to sign the labor agreement and Joint Statement today. This will lead to the establishment of the Austrian Reconciliation Fund, which will provide some justice to around 150,000 laborers, the overwhelming majority non-Jews from Central Europe and elsewhere, even those who worked for Austrian companies during World War II which are now defunct. I also want to commend the Austrian government for ensuring that other victims who suffered in labor camps, but who may not have performed labor, also receive some justice. In particular, I want to cite the specific inclusion of certain victims:
SIGNING OF AUSTRIAN LABOR AGREEMENT CEREMONY WITH AUSTRIAN PRESIDENT KLESTIL REM
a letter to President Klestil which I have the privilege of reading, dated October19th Dear Mr. President I commend you and the austrian government for your
http://www.usembassy.at/en/policy/rest4.htm

Extractions: October 24, 2000 President Klestil, Chancellor Schüssel, who has done so much to make this day possible and whose leadership and vision we deeply appreciate, Maria Schaumayer who was my partner and, if I may say so, I was the junior partner and she the senior partner, Heinz Fischer, President of the Austrian Parliament, Ambassador Sucharipa, Ambassador Winkler, Excellencies. "Historic" is a much-abused word, used so often that it has become debased. But today's signing is genuinely historic because, by providing a measure of justice to many forgotten victims of the Nazi era, the Austrian Reconciliation Fund will set an example for others both today and in the future. President Clinton has sent a letter to President Klestil which I have the privilege of reading, dated October 19th:
Amnesty International - Library - Federal Republic Of Yugoslavia (Kosovo): No Im
Amnesty International called on the austrian government to take immediatesteps to ensure that the suspect is brought to justice.
http://web.amnesty.org/ai.nsf/Index/EUR700052002?OpenDocument&of=COUNTRIES\AUSTR
The Austrian Fulbright Program In Brief
The US Government provided sole funding for the program until 1963, when the binationalcommission was established and the austrian government placed ATS 60
http://www.fulbright.at/fb/english.htm

Extractions: The program was initially proposed and sponsored by U.S. Senator J. William Fulbright (Arkansas) in 1946. The legislation, best known as the Fulbright Act , authorized the Secretary of State to use proceeds from the sale of surplus war property outside the United States after the Second World War to finance exchanges of students, teachers, and professors. According to the official text of the Fulbright Act, the purpose of the Program is "to promote mutual understanding between the people of the United States and the peoples of other nations." The new Act made available an unprecedented amount of funding for exchange programs and stipulated that awards be granted to foreigners to teach or study in the U.S.A. as well as to U.S. citizens to teach and study abroad. It also introduced a new concept for exchange agreements by providing for program administration based on binational commissions. In 1961, various pieces of legislation affecting educational exchange were consolidated into the Fulbright-Hays Act . This Act broadened the scope of the Fulbright Program, gave it new flexibility, assured funding in dollars as well as foreign currencies, and authorized the receipt of contributions from other governments.
The Avalon Project : Judgement : The Invasion Of Austria
In the afternoon and evening of the 11th March, 1938, the defendant Goering madea series of demands upon the austrian government, each backed up by ,the
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/imt/proc/judaus.htm

Extractions: The Avalon Project at Yale Law School Judgement : The Invasion of Austria Previous Document Judgment Contents Next Document The invasion of Austria was a pre-meditated aggressive step in furthering the plan to wage aggressive wars against other countries. As a result Germany's flank was protected, that of Czechoslovakia being greatly weakened. The first step had been taken in the seizure of " Lebensraum"; many new divisions of trained fighting men had been acquired; and with The seizure of foreign exchange reserves, the re-armament programme had been greatly strengthened. On the 21st May, 1935, Hitler announced in the Reichstag that Germany did not intend either to attack Austria or to interfere in her internal affairs. On the 1st May, 1936, he publicly coupled Czechoslovakia with Austria in his avowal of peaceful intentions; and so late as the 11th July, 1936, he recognised by treaty the full sovereignty of Austria. Austria was in fact seized by Germany in the month of March, 1938. For a number of years before that date, the National Socialists in Germany had been cooperating with ,the National Socialists of Austria with the ultimate object of incorporating Austria into the German Reich. The Putsch of July 25th, 1934, which resulted in the assassination of Chancellor Dollfuss, had the seizure of Austria as its object; but the Putsch failed, with the consequence that the National Socialist Party was outlawed in Austria. On the 11th July, 1936, an agreement was entered into between the two countries, Article 1 of which stated:
Energy Policies Of Austria : 1998 Review
IEA/PRESS(98)15 Paris, 12 November 1998 In a report released today, the InternationalEnergy Agency (IEA) praises the austrian governments progress in
http://www.iea.org/new/releases/austria.htm

Extractions: In a report released today, the International Energy Agency (IEA) praises the Austrian Government’s progress in recent years, such as improvement of security of supply through diversification of gas supply sources and abolishing import licences for fossil fuels. Austria also has a very good record of low CO2 emissions due to extensive use of hydro and other renewable energy sources. The report, entitled " Energy Policies of IEA Countries - Austria -1998 Review ", recognises the important challenge the Austrian Government faces to introducing more competition in the energy sector, and recommends the Government to take a clear market-oriented approach in its efforts to liberalise the electricity market. Local governments are heavily involved in the utility sector. In Vienna, the utility is part of the city government itself. The report states that utility should be an independent legal entity, corporatised and with unbundled accounts for each part of its business. It recommends the government to investigate whether there are obstacles to full commercial management of the electricity industry. The Austrian Government has impressive achievements in promoting renewable sources of energy, in line with its long-term energy objectives. However, the promotion of new renewables should not distort competition as is now the case with some projects. The report recommends the Government to continue to support the commercial deployment of renewable energy sources, but at the same time ensure that decisions to invest in renewables are based on economically viable cost calculations.
Free.netbase.org
We urge the austrian government to acknowledge Public Netbase as a pioneer in thefield of new media arts and culture by enabling the organization to continue
http://free.netbase.org/deutsch/texts/openletter/englisch.html

Extractions: September 2000 ::Right Wing Government Targets Public Netbase The individuals, initiatives, and organizations listed below hereby demand that Public Netbase, the Viennese Center for New Media, should neither be forcibly closed, nor should it be moved from its current location in the Museumsquartier. We urge the Austrian government to acknowledge Public Netbase as a pioneer in the field of new media arts and culture by enabling the organization to continue its work in the Museumsquartier. Unfortunately, since the change in government, Public Netbase has become the target of unreasonable accusations, hidden machinations, and unwarranted attacks. The withdrawal of all federal funding, the government's effort to stop support on the regional level, and the unsuccessful but extensive investigation into alleged financial misappropriations, are clearly being enacted as a means of silencing critical voices in Austrian civil society. We find this situation to be not only shocking but also deeply distressing, considering the contributions Public Netbase has made to the local community and to the field of new media arts.
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Austria. Compensation from the austrian government Nationalfonds der RepublikÖsterreich für Opfer des Nationalsozialismus Generalsekretärin Mag.
http://www.ushmm.org/assets/ag.htm

Extractions: The main task of the National Fonds is to provide financial support for victims of National Socialism as quickly, flexibly and unbureaucratically as possible. It was established in 1995, the 50th Anniversary of the Second Republic, in order to "remember all the immense wrong inflicted on millions of human beings by Nazism as well as the fact that Austrians, too, were involved in these crimes." To date over 18,000 applicants worldwide have received payments from the National Fonds. The Fonds pays according to age priority. In case of grave illness or social need, payments to younger persons can be made earlier - in case of social hardship the amount of 70,000 Austrian Schillings (approximately $6,000 US dollars) can be tripled. Application for compensation may be made through the Austrian Embassy in Washington, DC. Contact:
Resolution On Austria, Adopted By The JCPA Plenum 2000, Monday, February 28, 200
The formation of a new austrian government coalition, comprised of the conservativePeoples Party and the far right Freedom Party of populist leader Joerg
http://www.jewishpublicaffairs.org/israel/resolutions/austria-2-28-00.html

Extractions: Baltimore, MD The formation of a new Austrian government coalition, comprised of the conservative Peoples Party and the far right Freedom Party of populist leader Joerg Haider, has sounded alarm bells throughout Europe and beyond. Founded in 1956, the Freedom Party was composed of exNazis and Nazi supporters, but was not a major political factor until Joerg Haider became its leader in 1986. Haider brought his party to a second place finish in last fall's parliamentary elections through a mix of populist, xenophobic and anti-establishment themes. Past comments by Haider expressing support for Hitler's "labor policies," describing Nazi concentration camps as "punishment camps," and in praise of Waffen SS units were widely repeated as evidence of an unwillingness to confront his country's Nazi past. Though his recent election success owed much to voter dissatisfaction with the long-time ruling coalition, his party has always held at its core anti-Semitic and racist elements. Considering the general rise in extremism throughout Europe, the danger posed by Joerg Haiders leadership extends beyond his small country's borders. The Freedom Partys entrance into mainstream government represents a successful model for neo-fascist political movements in the center of Europe by playing on racist and xenophobic fearseven at a time of economic prosperityand opening the taboos of Holocaust denial and veiled anti-Semitism in the very homeland of Hitler.
Electronic Government (e-Government) With Fabasoft EGov-Suite
the Information Society event (20th June 2001, Hofburg, Vienna), Leopold Bauernfeind(CEO, Fabasoft) referred to the austrian government initiative to
http://www.fabasoft.com/html/news/news/2001-07-06.htm

Extractions: Sitemap Login Register Fabasoft - Fabasoft Group - Fabasoft Partners - Jobs@Fabasoft eGov-Suite - Introduction - Application - Functionality - Training - Product Contact eCRM-Suite - Introduction - Application - Functionality - Training - Product Contact News - News - Events Investors - Information - Investors Contact Services - Fabasoft Consulting - Fabasoft Training - Fabasoft Support - Contact At the beginning of Fabasoft's "e-Government for the Information Society" event (20th June 2001, Hofburg, Vienna), Leopold Bauernfeind (CEO, Fabasoft) referred to the Austrian government initiative: " to establish standard electronic software for business applications throughout public administration as well as installing electronic records as widely as possible by 2003." When he was foreign minister, the Austrian Chancellor Dr. Wolfgang Schüssel who underpinned the speech of Leopold Bauernfeind, had already introduced electronic records to the foreign ministry. Within a year, he introduced electronic records in the Chancellor's Office as well. At the moment, three departments of the Austrian government are working with electronic records.
Draft Report Of The Austrian National Consultation For Rio+5...
Austrian NGOs do not feel that the austrian government has placed a sufficientlyhigh enough priority on promoting the sustainable development agenda.
http://www.ecouncil.ac.cr/rio/national/reports/europe/austria.htm

Extractions: Index Go to summary report A. Critical issues: In the last five years, the US's influence has increased enormously, now that it is the only superpower. The success of global governance is very closely tied to the willingness of the US to provide support or not to the reform agenda. In Europe, social questions such as unemployment have become far more important in the eyes of Europeans a problems related to the environment. Austrian NGOs do not feel that the Austrian Government has placed a sufficiently high enough priority on promoting the sustainable development agenda. Many projects that are subsidized by the Austrian Government are contrary to the principles of sustainable development. The global money markets earn more money than the service sector. Unregulated currency transactions have deleterious social and economic consequences and are quickly becoming the driving force in the development of government policy. Development in Austria five years after Rio can not be considered as being more sustainable as it was before in 1992. The reason, in the view of Austrian NGOs view, is not a lack of relevant concepts but rather a failure of their concrete and widespread implementation. It is exactly this implementation aspect that has to be in the center of the Austrian Agenda 21 process in the coming years.
The Allied Occupation Of Austria
Between 1946 and 1953 the austrian government implemented more than550 laws over the objection of the Soviet Union. One such measure
http://www.britains-smallwars.com/Cold-war/Austria.html

Extractions: The Allied occupation of Austria Background This is a brief page based around events during the British participation in the Allied occupation of Austria afetr World War II, if you have a specific event or some detail to add please email james@britains-smallwars.com In 1938, Nazi Germany absorbed Austria as part of the Greater Reich with little reaction from the other European powers and the German army marched into Austria on March 12th. Seven years later, the Soviet army entered Austrian territory on 30th March 1945 and captured Vienna on 13th April. US forces entered Austria on 30th April, with French and British troops following soon after. On 8th May 1945, Germany surrendered bringing an end to World War Two in Europe. In the Soviet occupied eastern half of the country, the Soviets asked Karl Renner, a Socialist leader, to form and head a provisional government whom the Soviets believed they would be able to manipulate. Renner recruited the leaders of the three nonfascist parties and established a city administration in Vienna in early April 1945. On 27th April 1945, the provisional government issued a decree nullifying the Anschluss and reestablishing an independent, democratic Republic of Austria. The formation of the provisional government in the Soviet-occupied part of Austria surprised the Western Allies and they declined to recognise it, fearing a Soviet puppet government. As political figures became active in the western occupied sectors of Austria, the Soviet allow the provisional government to establish contact with them.
Three Wise Men
provided by the designation of three wise men who received a mandate to reportboth on the actual commitment of the austrian government to fundamental
http://www.arena.uio.no/news/bulletins/austriareport.htm

Extractions: and on the Freedom Party as such. The European Presidency limited its role to ask the President of the European Court of Human Rights, seating in Strasbourg, to design the three rapporteurs. Three experienced experienced public men were chosen, namely, former Finnish president Martti Ahtisaari; former Spanish foreign minister and former Comissioner Marcelino Oreja; and leading German lawyer Jochen Frowein. The Report In a reasonable period of time (less than three months), the three wise men managed to gather relevant information and to have meetings with members of government, political parties and civil society representatives in Austria. This preparatory work led to the issue of their report by September 8 th . The positive assessment of the attitude of the Austrian government to fundamental rights has been considered a sufficient basis for the unconditional lifting of the sanctions on Austria.
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Restitution from Austria; US Austria Agreement Flawed WASHINGTON Holocaustvictims and heirs are suing the austrian government, Austrian businesses and
http://www.livingheirs.com/livingheirsDev/Austria_2001_Feb_23.asp

Extractions: The lawsuit, filed Friday, February 23, by Unlike previous Holocaust lawsuits , a significant number of survivors and Heirs have joined in this action and, as well, their claims are backed by substantial and detailed documentation of the specific property that was taken from them or their families," said Robert L. Carter, a McKenna attorney. This action was taken notwithstanding an agreement last month between the United States and Austria to provide financial compensation and property restoration to survivors and other victims of the Nazi tyranny. The Jan. 17 agreement requires the Austrian Government and Austrian corporations to contribute $210 million to a general settlement fund , in addition to $150 million in cash settlements "We found the agreement to be so deeply flawed that we simply could not sign on behalf of our clients," said McKenna Attorney Herbert L. Fenster. "Beyond the

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