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Anti-migrant, anti-Islam FPÖ could emerge as most voted for party in Sunday’s parliamentary poll

After winning the EU elections in June, Austria’s far-right Freedom party (FPÖ) seized the moment, calling for the appointment of a EU “remigration” commissioner to be tasked with the forced return of migrants and citizens with a migration background to their countries of origin.

The muted reaction that followed was a sharp contrast to Germany, where months earlier, allegations that members of the far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) had attended a meeting at which they discussed remigration dominated headlines and prompted tens of thousands to take to the streets in protest.

The difference was not lost on Farid Hafez, a senior researcher at Georgetown University. In Austria, “there was no outcry,” he said. “This is the normalisation of racism that the far right has achieved and that has become a very normal part of daily Austrian politics.”

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[-] tal@lemmy.today 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Exhume and ship Beethoven's corpse back to Belgium! Austrian soil is for Austrian blood alone!

[-] TheSealStartedIt@feddit.org 3 points 3 months ago

*Bonn. He's born in Bonn, Germany. We'll gladly take him back.

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