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« Reply #825 on: June 30, 2018, 11:27:21 PM »

New "OGM" poll for the "Kurier":



https://kurier.at/politik/inland/kurz-und-strache-im-stabilen-hoch/400059485
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« Reply #826 on: July 01, 2018, 01:26:44 AM »

Saya Ahmad (34, SPÖ - born in Iraq) was recently sworn in as the first Muslim mayor of an Austrian city-(equivalent).

She is now head of Vienna's 9th district and in March was previously elected in an internal SPÖ membership vote with 73% of the vote.



http://www.vienna.at/wien-alsergrund-saya-ahmad-ist-die-neue-bezirksvorsteherin/5841720

https://www.wien.gv.at/bezirke/alsergrund/politik/bezirksvorsteherin-ahmad.html
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« Reply #827 on: July 05, 2018, 11:09:23 PM »

Yesterday was the last session in parliament before the summer break and ÖVP-FPÖ (+NEOS) passed a very neoliberal/right-wing agenda:



* ÖVP-FPÖ-NEOS passed the so-called "flexiwork" law, which extends max. working hours a day to 12 and to 60 per week. The SPÖ-LiPi opposition + the outerparliamentarian Greens strongly opposed the new law as anti-social, unhealthy and hostile to working parents. ÖVP-FPÖ-NEOS argued that flexiwork will allow companies to work off huge workloads in peak times and allow employees more time off during periods with less work (but that the general 8-hour day will remain and workers can voluntarily opt out from overtime). Austrian voters are split on the topic, or opposed. Many younger workers without kids like the idea, because you can work 3-4 days per week and then take 3-4 days off. On the other hand, I agree that it is not healthy if you work 12-hour days for a longer time, especially on jobs such as construction or other labour-intensive jobs.

https://derstandard.at/2000082865663/Gesetz-zum-Zwoelfstundentag-tritt-schon-im-September-in-Kraft-Opposition

* ÖVP-FPÖ have once again toughened the migration/asylum law: asylum seeker's mobile phones can now be confiscated to track their migration routes and to screen for their real age. Also, any money they have with them can be confiscated to pay for their possible stay in the country. If deported asylum seekers try to re-enter the country again illegally, they will not only face a financial penalty (as was the case until now), they will be imprisoned. And finally, asylum seekers who committed a crime, or who are treated in hospital, will immediately be put into deportation imprisonment after their release from prison/hospital - to prevent any future crimes committed by them. There have been some brutal cases recently where asylum seekers served prison time and then killed or raped someone or avoided deportation.

https://derstandard.at/2000082916308/Fremdenrechtsverschaerfung-im-Nationalrat-beschlossen

* And finally, ÖVP+FPÖ passed a measure to make the (already efficient) health care system even more efficient.

https://derstandard.at/2000082908912/Koalition-beschloss-Aufnahme-und-Baustopp-fuer-Krankenkassen
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« Reply #828 on: July 05, 2018, 11:17:16 PM »

An important note on the implementation of expanded flexi-work:

While Austria's max. daily work time will now be expanded from 10 hours to 12 hours, that's still not the highest in the EU.

Sweden, Denmark, the UK and Ireland all allow 13 hours of work per day. Austria's 10 hours were actually pretty mainstream, only Spain was lower at 9 hours max. work.

The new law will take effect on September 1.
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« Reply #829 on: July 07, 2018, 01:26:41 AM »

A new "Profil" magazine poll shows that 59% of Austrian voters support the union protests regarding the recently-passed FLEXIwork law and also future strike proposals.

Obviously, this won't lead to anything because the law will take effect on Sept. 1 already.

The SPÖ has called for a multi-partisan petition drive though, which would certainly gain a lot of supporters (maybe 1 million or more signatures), but petition drives are a rather meaningless instrument of Austrian direct democracy and can easily be blocked by the ÖVP-FPÖ government.

In parliament this week, ÖVP-FPÖ have also blocked the SPÖ's proposal for a binding referendum on this topic.

The only way to block the FLEXIwork law would be the Constitutional Court, but even this is unlikely because the law is clearly within the EU's labour law incl. working hour regulations.

https://www.ots.at/presseaussendung/OTS_20180707_OTS0001/profil-umfrage-mehrheit-der-oesterreicher-haelt-streiks-gegen-den-12-stunden-tag-fuer-gerechtfertigt
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« Reply #830 on: July 07, 2018, 12:13:11 PM »

Austria's EU presidency over the next 6 months has a proposal out to allow asylum requests only outside the EU (with some exceptions):

Austrian proposal requires asylum seekers to apply outside EU

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https://www.reuters.com/article/us-europe-migrants-austria/austrian-proposal-requires-asylum-seekers-to-apply-outside-eu-profil-idUSKBN1JX0HO

+ more on Kurz's role and chances in the current EU presidency:

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-07-06/austria-is-the-place-to-look-for-next-eu-leader
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« Reply #831 on: July 07, 2018, 03:51:09 PM »

How dare Austria lecture other countries about how to run asylum, just because Austria historically hates seeing ethnic minorities on its soil.
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« Reply #832 on: July 08, 2018, 02:50:57 AM »

How dare Austria lecture other countries about how to run asylum, just because Austria historically hates seeing ethnic minorities on its soil.

There's so much wrong with your post: First, we don't lecture other countries how to run the asylum system, it's only a paper/proposal up for debate over the next 6 months. And recently, even many previously naive countries/EU-leaders have realized that something stricter has to be done to get rid of the "pull-factor" from Africa and the Middle-East. Secondly, Austria doesn't hate ethnic minorities on its soil, it's just the consensus among voters that we should pick on our own who comes and who doesn't. What voters do not want is excessive, uncontrolled immigration of backwards economic immigrants who are hard to integrate into the labour market and society as a whole and bring crime with them. We want a limited number of skilled people, who can look after their own financially, right after entering the country - without being a drag on the welfare system. And people who easily adopt our lifestyle, instead of living in anti-democratic, backwards parallel societies for decades.

That is our right as a nation and if you don't accept this, you are a fool.
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« Reply #833 on: July 09, 2018, 01:11:44 PM »

The new German "Spiegel" magazine cover:

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http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/europe-s-next-test-case-a-journey-down-austria-s-path-to-the-right-a-1216401.html
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« Reply #834 on: July 11, 2018, 05:32:12 AM »

The kindergarten and elementary school headscarf ban will take effect in 2 months already:

Austria to ban headscarves in kindergartens and primary schools to ‘stop dangerous rise of political Islam’

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« Reply #835 on: July 11, 2018, 11:13:44 AM »

Austria's EU presidency over the next 6 months has a proposal out to allow asylum requests only outside the EU (with some exceptions):

Austrian proposal requires asylum seekers to apply outside EU

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https://www.reuters.com/article/us-europe-migrants-austria/austrian-proposal-requires-asylum-seekers-to-apply-outside-eu-profil-idUSKBN1JX0HO

+ more on Kurz's role and chances in the current EU presidency:

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-07-06/austria-is-the-place-to-look-for-next-eu-leader

If you take this proposal at its word, then it is a poor idea. It will lead to more non-western migrants in the EU because it will be easier to reach the place, from where you can seek asylum. Therefore many more would be able to get asylum. Theoretically, there will be some benefits as those who get their asylum application rejected, will not be in the EU. However, in reality these are the people that would continue to travel towards Europe, unless there is a strong border guard, which push backs these migrants (which we are yet to see).

This proposal can be good if it is the first step towards a system, where both asylum seekers and those receiving asylum are located outside Europe. But this is not how the proposal currently sounds.
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« Reply #836 on: July 11, 2018, 01:03:37 PM »

President Van der Bellen has announced that he won't sign the CETA free trade treaty into law:

http://orf.at/stories/2446571/2446572

CETA was recently passed in parliament with the votes of ÖVP+FPÖ (even though the FPÖ always campaigned against it, but said they will vote for it because of their coalition contract with the ÖVP).

Both Norbert Hofer and Alexander Van der Bellen said while campaigning for President in 2016 that they won't sign CETA (or TTIP, or Mercosur) into law "as it stands right now".

Today, Van der Bellen said that he'll wait for the European Court CETA ruling on behalf of Belgium first and only then he'll make a decision.

Interestingly, the FPÖ praised Van der Bellen's decision today ... Tongue
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« Reply #837 on: July 13, 2018, 12:40:25 AM »

New Research Affairs poll for Ö24 newspaper (n=1.008, online, July 5-11):



The ÖVP-FPÖ government gets a 61% job approval rating, which is about 4% higher than their combined vote.

                       

http://www.oe24.at/oesterreich/politik/Oesterreicher-mit-Regierung-zufrieden/340915974
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« Reply #838 on: July 13, 2018, 11:51:08 PM »

Quarterly Spectra poll (June 6-29, Method = face-to-face, n = 983, MoE = +/- 3.8%):

34% ÖVP (+2.5%)
28% FPÖ (+2.0%)
26% SPÖ (-0.9%)
  4% NEOS (-1.3%)
  4% LiPi (-0.4%)
  3% Greens (-0.8%)
  1% Others (-1.1%)

https://www.nachrichten.at/storage/med/download/287735_52-2750_52-2753_52-2764_Politikbarometer_NRW_2_18.pdf
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« Reply #839 on: July 14, 2018, 02:16:44 AM »

Another new Unique Research/Profil magazine poll (July 9-13, n=800, online+phone interviews, MoE = +/- 3.5%):

34% ÖVP (+2.5%)
29% SPÖ (+2.1%)
24% FPÖ (-2.0%)
  5% NEOS (-0.3%)
  4% Greens (+0.2%)
  2% LiPi (-2.4%)
  2% Others (-0.1%)



Chancellor vote:

36% Kurz (ÖVP)
22% Kern (SPÖ)
12% Strache (FPÖ)
  2% Meinl-Reisinger (NEOS)

ÖVP+FPÖ government approval rating:

52% approve
44% disapprove

The government gets good grades on asylum/immigration/integration policies and economic policy, but bad grades for healthcare reform, social policies and education.

https://www.profil.at/oesterreich/umfrage-fpoe-sonntagsfrage-10209891
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« Reply #840 on: July 14, 2018, 11:18:07 AM »

With his coalition's polling numbers better than ever, Chancellor Sebastian Kurz went hiking today ... together with 2.500 people in an event called "Upwards, Austria":







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« Reply #841 on: July 16, 2018, 01:34:17 AM »

In the 2nd quarter, the Austrian economy maintained the high growth rates from 2017 and the 1st quarter of 2018, according to new indicators from the National Bank and the Bank Austria:

The economy was up by 3% in 2017 and 3.4% in the first quarter and probably by 3.1-3.5% in the second, because industrial production, exports and consumer spending remained strong.

Also, a new Spectra economic sentiment index has Austrians more optimistic on the economy than ever before:



Blue: I'm optimistic that the economic situation will get better over the next year
Red: I'm pessimistic that the economic situation will worsen over the next year
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« Reply #842 on: July 17, 2018, 09:53:39 AM »

Kurz: Austria won't take any migrants from Sicily



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« Reply #843 on: July 17, 2018, 10:07:55 AM »

  How come no non-European countries are wanting to also take some of these migrants? If in fact the long term effect of having such migrants is a positive one would thing that countries from Lebanon to Thailand, from Zimbabwe to Paraguay would be wanting to get in line for their fair share.
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« Reply #844 on: July 17, 2018, 10:16:11 AM »

 How come no non-European countries are wanting to also take some of these migrants? If in fact the long term effect of having such migrants is a positive one would think that countries from Lebanon to Thailand, from Zimbabwe to Paraguay would be wanting to get in line for their fair share.

That's correct.

But thank goodness we have a Chancellor in charge now who's aware of the problem and who's taking the right steps to solve the problem (or at least stop the flow).

A man who acts on behalf of voters and no longer on behalf of the pro-immigration/open-borders mafia and reckless smugglers.

Because, what we need now is to reduce our old stock of asylum seekers and once this is reduced, properly vet and let in the ones we choose and not the smugglers: educated, skilled workers and not impoverished, backwards immigrants.
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« Reply #845 on: July 17, 2018, 10:24:34 AM »

  Tender, I wonder if Kurz, not Trump, is the model that people internationally on the right should be emulating and learning from as an example of proper governance. His personality, his leadership and rhetoric, all of it so refreshing compared with the Donald.  New slogan for the day, the future is Kurz, not Trump.
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« Reply #846 on: July 17, 2018, 10:34:37 AM »

  Tender, I wonder if Kurz, not Trump, is the model that people internationally on the right should be emulating and learning from as an example of proper governance. His personality, his leadership and rhetoric, all of it so refreshing compared with the Donald.  New slogan for the day, the future is Kurz, not Trump.

Yes. Kurz, under the right circumstances, has the potential to remain Chancellor for 2 (if not 3) terms and re-shape Austria and Europe with his ideas*.

I recently read that in Austria, where Islam is a recognized religion for over 100 years, only this year (!) it will be possible to study Islamic theology for incoming teachers at the university of Vienna. Until now, all imams and Islam teachers have received their teaching from Turkey and Saudi-Arabia etc. - countries with extremely fundamentalist views on this religion. Austria needs its own Islam. A liberal one, which respects women's equality and rejects anti-semitism and fundamentialism. Kurz initiated this university programme and cut all outside funding for mosques in Austria.

*That's of course assuming that the FPÖ is not falling apart along the road and remains discliplined and keeps out the Nazi-elements (and at best, weeds them out completely).

Donald Trump on the other hand is an oddity of time and will very, very likely be a 1-term President.
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« Reply #847 on: July 17, 2018, 10:41:22 AM »

Hermann Maier, Austria's legendary alpine skier (3x World Champion and 2x Olympic Gold medalist) from the 1990s and early 2000s, has come out in favour of stopping deportations of young asylum seekers in apprenticeships as an act of humanity.



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_Maier

This is interesting, because Maier is a poster boy for Kurz's ÖVP.

https://kurier.at/politik/inland/ex-ski-ass-maier-fuer-fluechtlinge-in-lehre-gebot-der-menschlichkeit/400066286

This is also something I support, as long as the asylum seekers in training and jobs have no prior criminal record.
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« Reply #848 on: July 17, 2018, 10:59:10 AM »

  How come no non-European countries are wanting to also take some of these migrants? If in fact the long term effect of having such migrants is a positive one would thing that countries from Lebanon to Thailand, from Zimbabwe to Paraguay would be wanting to get in line for their fair share.

I mean you can make a fair statement that some countries aren't pulling their Weight, but the fact that you put Lebanon on your list is pretty ignorant. Lebanon hosts more than a million syrians; almost a third of its population are refugees. Say what you like about the refugee crisis in Europe, in many MENA countries the problem blows what we see here out of the water.
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« Reply #849 on: July 17, 2018, 02:37:05 PM »

So the FPÖ in Niederösterreich is apparently responsible for animal welfare under the Proporz system and attempts to make kosher slaughter as difficult as possible ("doing everything that's legally possible to limit the practice" were the exact words). Apparently somebody had come up with the idea to only allow people registered on lists to buy kosher meat, though the ÖVP have now said they will prevent this from happening. Still creepy, particularly when introduced by the party whose provincial leader had to resign over Nazi songs glorifying the Shoah, and a big nope.
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