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Article: Fraying; Austria's coalition government.(Jorg Haider and Austria's coalition government)(Brief Article)
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- January 26, 2002
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No Haider of prejudice
Jorg Haider, Austria's right-wing populist, may unravel the government
IT IS not surprising, in a country where hostility to nuclear power is widespread, that almost 16% of Austria's voters took the trouble to sign a petition calling for the closure of a nuclear plant at Temelin, across the border in the Czech Republic. What was odd was that the Greens and most other anti-nuclear Austrians refused to sign. Still odder, the petition was promoted by a party that is in Austria's coalition government, which only last month signed a treaty with the Czechs to guarantee better safety measures at Temelin while accepting that the plant ...