Austrian Elections & Politics 4.0

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will Pilz run lists at a state level?

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What's the new governments stance on climate change? Are the FPO denialists?

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  2% Pilz (-2.4)
 

lol, not even Stronach collapsed this quickly.

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ÖVP+FPÖ presented their common education platform today (nothing really controversial):

http://derstandard.at/2000068669389/Lehrer-sollen-kuenftig-nach-Leistung-bezahlt-werden

Some points:

* more funding for kindergartens + elementary/middle schools and kids (to screen for and help talents early on), strengthening of social and creative skills of students.

* teaching kids Austrian/Western/liberal values early on, from kindergarten. Children from (Muslim) migrant backgrounds will have to pass a level of German before entering elementary school, or take additional German lessons if they are not passing that basic level after 2 years of kindergarten. If migrant parents with a potential radical background do not send their kids to school or tell them not to shake hands with female teachers etc., welfare benefits of these parents will be cut.

* more comprehensive, all-day schooling (to help out working moms in the afternoon)

* teaching kids more economic/entrepreneurial competence in school, such as e-learning, digital media, coding and how to create/run a business ...

* stricter controls of Muslim kindergartens and if necessary ... they will be shut down, if they do not follow state guidelines. Kindergarten lead teachers will need to have a mandatory university degree and outside financing (from Turkey, Saudi Arabia) will be banned.

* teachers will be rewarded if they produce good educational results among their students and teachers will have to take mandatory skill enhancement courses throughout the year to remain up-to-date.

I think that's unconstitutional, both according to Austrian constitution and EUHRC.

anyway fair play to FPÖ, unlike their Afd\FN\Ukip counterparts they actually look like a party capable of governing.

That's probably easy to make constitutional though. Just remove the "migrant parents" part and that's it. Applying it to all Austrians wouldn't be an issue. Let's be honest, the amount of Austrians without any migration background doing that is almost certainly 0.

Orthodox Jews I guess? Round London where I grew up, there are a fair amount of Haredis who own propetry, and there is a lot of grumbling that they refuse to acknowledged local women (and a rather surprising amount of anti-Semitism - which surprised me because I'm a naive idiot who thought such things were unheard of in areas like mine).

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The demands for increased military spending makes me wonder: are any politicians pushing for an abandoning of neutrality?

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Do they still need a coalition partner of they get exactly half the seats?

Also lol what a flop for the minors.

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This may be a stupid question, but what is the "profile" of Carinthia? What made it so vulnerable to Haider? Is it considered economically prosperous? What are its main industries?

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Is ERDE a green split?

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Damn thresholds suck.

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So is the Austrian healthcare system a sort of multiplayer system where all the providers are nationalised? What is the Austrian healthcare system like, anyways?

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Bit irredentist putting South Tyrol here, lol.

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  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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Why is Strache so unpopular compared to his FPO colleagues?

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Why is Strache so unpopular compared to his FPO colleagues?

Maybe because he's more well-known ?

Can't be that, Hoefer is presumably just as well known and he's quite popular.