What do you think about Politics in Austria?
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Don't know much about Austria, I have always heard it's a good place to live or visit, but it couldn't be worst then here in America. I think we have reached an all time low. Someone really needs to step up and try to bring everyone together, if possible.
1134636
Why should you want to do that?\n\nIf you dislike the politics of your home country, choose another.\n\nThat's "voting by feet" - as it's called here.
244462
I guess that is a matter of opinion depending on your politics and where you live.
381459
She's doing a fantastic job.  Hamstrung as she is with such a small majority in the Bundestag (CDU/CSU over SPD, not coalition over FDP) she is going forward cautiously with her reforms.  She's doing a good job, and unemployment is slowly coming down.  I forsee a re-election in her future.  (My uncle Hans is a die-hard SPD voter, but he says he may even vote for her in the next general election)
99337
Pretty good\nSee this list of facts\nhttp://www.germany-info.org/relaunch/politics/german_us/facts.html
470539
I am an independant. I believe in a strong, small government. I believe in an unbiased foreign policy. I believe in protecting and helping American citizens first, before helping and defending other countries. I believe in protecting the environment. I believe in the rights afforded to us by the Constitution, including the Right to Bear Arms. I am anti-abortion in most cases. I believe in tax cuts for everyone, not just the wealthy. I believe that marriage is a basic human right, gay or straight.\n\nI side with Democrats on some of these issues, and Republicans on others. I, personally, do not like Bush and what he's done to this country. I dislike and distrust both political parties equally. One of my favorite quotes is Abraham Lincoln; “A statesman is he who thinks in the future generations, and a politician is he who thinks in the upcoming elections.”. We need more statesmen and fewer politicians.
992998
I think immigration's out-of-control. I think that a lot of our politicians have some bright ideas about 'one world' etc., and some of those don't quite work out the way they planned, and then there's those gosh-darn unintended consequences etc.\nIf people keep it civil, immigration's no problem, but we're well beyond 'civil' in some cases, and policies need to be improved and amended to slow this stuff down quite a bit....bum's rush doesn't cut it...
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I am from Santa Fe, Argentina. I think Kirchner's government (whom I didn't vote for, by the way) is the best government we've had, concerning human rights. I love that Kirchner is really supporting human rights movements (like Madres de Plaza de Mayo, and so on) and trying to do something good (the best he can, considering the extensive damage Menem and Alfonsín did before) to make those who killed the "desaparecidos" pay, or to recover their kidnapped children.\n\nOn the other hand, I think that economic situation hasn't really improved so far. Kirchner's policies are the same (or even worse) than those of preceding presidents, like Duhalde. He has paid off the debt to the IMF, while people are starving in the country, and he's not doing anything about that. And it is sad that after what happened to us at the end of 2001, when people's savings were stolen, many people who were around by then are still around now.
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good question! \n\nyou know, I can't think of a better way to get a cross section of society's honest opinion on such a wide range of issues, even including various sponsored polls and surveys. I think even the yahoo guys themselves should consider bringing the \nY!A politics politics section to their attention because many people have had suspicions or seen evidence of politicians seeming out of touch with their voter's opinion through the years & not just in the west either.\n\nit would do them a lot of good (and no harm at all) to read some of the answers on Y!A, and even perhaps ask a few questions as well!\nY!A
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As a former Ohioan (just left in June) I was glad to hear the results. I have talked to some of my friends there today and they are happy. We were concerned that the Republican gubernatorial candidate in particular was just too conservative, compared to our own views. Like many states, Ohio is not homogeneous. I lived in Youngstown and found that my local community (not just the university) tended to be pretty heavily Democrat and liberal. \n\nI think that at least some Ohioans voted against Republicans as a way to vote against Taft, though he was on his way out anyway. Not fair or a good way to choose how to vote, but I think it happens regularly and that there was that sort of message voting going on all over the country yesterday.
524751
it's under Austria to the right of Italy
448197
First, thanks for the comment on Americans...at least no one has imposed an anti-democratic, illegal government with powers to spend tax money on the U.S.A.!  No foreigner at least can use public money to put Americans out of work.  Here only 5% of us don't work!  On the other hand:\n\nScandalous?  Yes, its scandalous, unfair, anti-democratic, immoral.\n\n            It's the European Union.\n\n            The politicians are happy, especially the most cynical and useless ones, who when they lose elections in their home countries, populate the European Parliament, the European Commission on this and that, the European...    There are dozens of men who lost elections in their countries of origin who wield more power than the majority of Prime ministers in Europe.  And money disappears continuously...500 million euros according to what I have \nread about last years accounting...the auditors, I understand, refused to sign the books so much money had gone astray!   They disbanded the European Parliament a few years back due to corruption, nepotism, waste of funds\n...now they are all back!\n            Where were your complaints, then?\n            \n             Do something about it.  Pressure your local politicians, let people know you'll vote for the people who'll stand up against the imposition of a European supergovernment.  Boycott products, tv stations, and publications that run propaganda PRO-Europe!   Don't we all have enough government with our own?\n\n             Originally Europeans were told (I know because I was in Britain then) that this was an economic Union...that it meant cooperation and peace...and who could be against that?   But since it has converted in a monster, gobbling up the tax money of Western Europeans to promote policies that put them out of work, that increase crime and illegal immigration, that make political parties illegal in countries that used to be free and functioning nations, etc.\nAnd people were told, there's no danger, the treaties will be revoked if ONLY ONE member country votes no in a referendum.\n\n             Since then, count them...I believe the list is something like this on referenda (do you want your country to be part an European Union political union?)   Denmark:  NO,   Austria:  NO,  Belgium:  NO (I think in Belgium they closed down the Parliament to change the vote somehow), Holland: NO, France: NO.   Blair won't allow Britains to vote because he knows its an overwhelming NO, at least until he gets enough immigrants in to change the vote. \n\nThroughout Europe  ( I know Ive talked to Belgians, Spaniards, Germans, Poles...) the schools brainwash children in how wonderful the Union is, how much \nthey owe to the Union, etc...let a generation pass and the NOs will be Yess, why? propaganda.  I travel in Europe and the television is a never ending stream of European Union this and that.\n\n               Yes, if you work in production of goods and services in France, Germany, Britain, Poland, Austria, Holland, Belgium...you are paying.  Are you getting anything back?   Yes,  soon you won't have a job, or your pay will be less, and, if it matters to you, your country won't have sovereignty anymore.  If you think its scandalous now, just wait until the European army and \npolice force exist. Think George W. Bush is a danger to mankind?  Who bombed Belgrade in 1999?  Who benefitted from all those innocent civilians who died?  Why was there no protest against that illegal war?  Isn't it curious that there are so many laws against this and that, but that crime soars, illegal immigrants destroy property and \nneighborhoods, sell drugs and increase crime, and even bomb subways...and Europe orders the media to play it down, to not be so "racist".  Well, you should read your History, that's my favorite reading...the E.U. was Hitler's idea,  its origins are the Nazi's whose goal was a European political union.  And the idea
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http://library.byu.edu/~rdh/eurodocs/austria.html\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Austria-Hungary\n\nhttp://europeanhistory.about.com/od/austriahungary/\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austria-Hungary\n\nhttp://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1867beust.html\n\nhttp://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook22.html\n\nhttp://atoz.ebsco.com/home.asp?id=5458&sid=77294307&LCID=DB&LCName=History%3A%2BAustria.%2BCzechoslovakia.%2BHungary\n\nhttp://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAEah.htm\n\nhttp://www.historyworld.net/wrldhis/PlainTextHistories.asp?groupid=2055&HistoryID=ab87\n\nhttp://www.decades.com/Timeline/n/1788.htm\n\nhttp://www.zum.de/whkmla/region/germany/ahindex.html
703836
I believe it is a political party in India.\n\nI really don't know a lot of that party.
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i think they are going to try and push it through next year with out referendums.  EU presidency changes next year too.  i think in light of events in the middle east, it is considered a pressing issue.
1127406
Don't really have much of an opinion on him. I haven't seen any big change in Canada. How do you feel about are new prime Minister so far?
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia\nJump to: navigation, search\nRepublik Österreich\nRepublic of Austria   \nFlag Coat of arms \n \nMotto: none \nAnthem: Land der Berge, Land am Strome\n("Land of Mountains, Land on the River") \n \nCapital Vienna\n48°12′N 16°21′E \nLargest city Vienna \nOfficial language(s) German (official)\nSlovenian (reg.) Croatian (reg.) Hungarian (reg.)\nAustrian Sign Language  \nGovernment \nPresident\nChancellor Republic\nHeinz Fischer\nWolfgang Schüssel \nIndependence\nFrom Germany \n1945 \nAccession to the EU January 1, 1995 \nArea\n - Total\n \n - Water (%)  \n83,871 km² (113th)\n32,383 sq mi \n1.3 \nPopulation\n - 2005 est.\n - 2001 census\n - Density  \n8,206,524 (86th)\n8,032,926\n{{{population_density}}}/km² (78th)\n251/sq mi  \nGDP (PPP)\n - Total\n - Per capita 2005 estimate\n$267 billion (35th)\n$32,962 (9th) \nHDI (2003) 0.936 (17th) – high \nCurrency Euro¹ (EUR) \nTime zone\n - Summer (DST) CET (UTC+1)\nCEST (UTC+2) \nInternet TLD .at \nCalling code +43 \n¹ Prior to 2002: Austrian Schilling \nThe Republic of Austria (German: Republik Österreich) is a landlocked country in central Europe. It borders Germany and the Czech Republic to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the west. Its capital is the city of Vienna.\n\nAustria is a parliamentary representative democracy consisting of nine federal states and is one of two European countries that have declared permanent neutrality, the other being Switzerland. Austria is a member of the United Nations (since 1955) and the European Union (since 1995). For the first half of 2006, Austria holds the seat of the Presidency of the EU.\n\nContents [hide]\n1 Origin and history of the name \n2 History \n2.1 Austria and the Holy Roman Empire \n2.2 Modern history \n3 Politics \n4 Subdivisions \n5 Geography \n5.1 Climate \n6 Economy \n7 Demographics \n7.1 Politics concerning ethnic groups (Volksgruppenpolitik) \n8 Religion \n9 Culture \n10 Miscellaneous topics \n11 References \n12 External links \n \n\n\n[edit]\nOrigin and history of the name\nThe German name Österreich can be translated into English as the "eastern realm", which is derived from the Old German Ostarrîchi. Reich can also mean "empire", and this connotation is the one that is understood in the context of the Austrian/Austro-Hungarian Empire, Holy Roman Empire, although not in the context of the modern Republic of Österreich. The term probably originates in a vernacular translation of the Medieval Latin name for the region: Marchia orientalis, which translates as "eastern borderland", as it was situated at the eastern edge of the Holy Roman Empire, that was also mirrored in the name Ostmark applied after Anschluss to Germany.\n\n[edit]\nHistory\nFor more details on this topic, see History of Austria. \n[edit]\nAustria and the Holy Roman Empire\nThe territory of Austria, originally known as the Celtic kingdom of Noricum, was a long time ally of Rome. It was occupied rather than conquered by the Romans during the reign of Augustus and made the province Noricum in 16 BC. Later it was conquered by Huns, Rugii, Lombards, Ostrogoths, Bavarii, Avars (until c. 800), and Franks (in that order). Finally, after 48 years of Hungarian rule (907 to 955), the core territory of Austria was awarded to Leopold of Babenberg in 976. Being part of the Holy Roman Empire the Babenbergs ruled and expanded Austria from the 10th century to the 13th century.\n\n \nBattle of Vienna 1683After Duke Frederick II died in 1246 and left no successor, Rudolf I of Habsburg gave the lands to his sons marking the beginning of the line of the Habsburgs, who continued to govern Austria until the 20th century.\n\nWith the short exception of Charles VII Albert of Bavaria, Austrian Habsburgs held the position of German Emperor beginning in 1438 with Albert II of Habsburg until the end of the Holy Rom