A red-blue wave (in Austria)? - New Eastern Europe - A bimonthly news magazine dedicated to Central and Eastern European affairs
The Bergkirche in Eisenstadt, the capital of Burgenland in Austria. Photo: Herbert Frank flickr.com Post-war Austrian politics, at least until the 1990s, has not been known for its unpredictability or diversity when it comes to coalitions. Austria holds the peculiar distinction of having been ruled by a ‘grand coalition’ (a government composed of the centre-left Social Democratic Party (SPÖ) and the centre-right Austrian People’s Party (ÖVP)) for longer than most European countries. In a period when these coalitions were much less common across the continent at various levels, they be...
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