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The erosion of traditional political lines is helping extremist parties gain traction. The attacks perpetrated by Anders Behring Breivik in Oslo and on the island of...

Only the patient and those with a great deal of local knowledge will fully enjoy a new book about Austria. Paul Lendvai, a Hungarian who is one of Austria's most prominent...

The EU's new top jobs are causing problems. The controversies that have simmered about who should be appointed to two of the European Union's most senior jobs are...

Austria's chancellor has commissioner concerns. Werner Faymann, Austria's chancellor and the leader of the Social Democratic Party (SPÖ), has painted himself into a corner...

Speculation at the summit. Speculation about who might be appointed to two high-profile EU jobs was never far from the summit, though it was not the subject of a formal...

Why have the Beneš Decrees, which legitimated the post-war expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, surfaced so persistently as a political problem? A Czech president once...

Formal discussions about first EU president are still pending, but Schüssel and Balkenende emerge from EU summit with higher profiles. Wolfgang Schüssel, the...

Centre-right party set keep six MEPs, while the SPÖ drops to five. The centre-right Austrian People's Party (ÖVP) has overtaken the Social Democrats (SPÖ) as the...

Europe's bogeyman lived and died in the fast lane The funeral of Jörg Haider on Saturday (18 October) will be attended by tens of thousands of Carinthians, mourning...

Which commissioners are likely to get a second chance – and which will not – in the next European Commission? If European Commission President José Manuel...

Wilhelm Molterer has just ended Austria's grand coalition, but its likely restoration could end his career. Wilhelm Molterer, Austria's deputy federal chancellor, is an...

While for Austrians the EU is an irritant, Belgians might be more inclined to sing Ode to Joy than Te Deum on their national holiday. Belgium's national holiday on 21 July...

The strongest signal the EU could send to Iran that it means business is to take the People's Mujahideen Organisation of Iran off its terror list. Four years ago, when...

The new president of the European Council might not take up office until the second half of 2009, depending on when and if ratification of the Treaty of Lisbon is completed,...

Less than a year ago, Alfred Gusenbauer, as the leader of Austria's Socialist Party (SPÖ), had a secure place among the also-rans of European politics. Clumsy, unlucky, how...

European politicians are not afraid to tap into the popular appeal of sport – and football in particular – to boost the image of the EU and its institutions. In March...

Brilliant, cussed and shamelessly interfering in national politics, the Viennese press tycoon Hans Dichand has for years been top dog in the overcrowded hothouse of Austria's...

Maria Berger, the leader of the Austrian Socialist MEPs in the European Parliament, is leaving the assembly to become justice minister in the Austrian government that was...

While the 2004 enlargement of the EU was imbued with the spirit of reuniting a continent divided by a century of war and ideology, this month's admission of Romania and...

European Commission President José Manuel Barroso hailed what he called the “new consensus” on enlargement reached by EU leaders at the summit last week (14-15...