Austria's anti-immigrant Freedom Party - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Mon, 20 May 2019 06:15:58 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cathnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-cathnewsfavicon-32x32.jpg Austria's anti-immigrant Freedom Party - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 Europe needs to 'stand up' against far right as Austrian government falls https://cathnews.co.nz/2019/05/20/europe-far-right-austria-merkel/ Mon, 20 May 2019 07:51:01 +0000 https://cathnews.co.nz/?p=117766 German Chancellor Angela Merkel says Europe needs to push back against the far right, amid a political crisis that has claimed Austria's government. Merkel made the remarks when asked about a scandal engulfing Austria's anti-immigrant Freedom Party, whose leader Heinz-Christian Strache quit on Saturday as the government's vice-chancellor. Strache was secretly recorded reportedly promising a Read more

Europe needs to ‘stand up' against far right as Austrian government falls... Read more]]> German Chancellor Angela Merkel says Europe needs to push back against the far right, amid a political crisis that has claimed Austria's government.

Merkel made the remarks when asked about a scandal engulfing Austria's anti-immigrant Freedom Party, whose leader Heinz-Christian Strache quit on Saturday as the government's vice-chancellor.

Strache was secretly recorded reportedly promising a Russian investor government contracts in return for them purchasing a newspaper and supporting his anti-immigrant Freedom Party. Read more

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