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Austrian Federal Chancellor Sebastian Kurz becomes a popular magazine cover title. Journalists around the world portray him to introduce the young chancellor to his readers. After "Newsweek", the "Times" of London and the Hamburger "Spiegel", the American magazine "Time", Sebastian Kurz dedicates a cover. Rarely is an Austrian head of government so often mentioned in the international media. This time, Simon Shuster interviewed him. The issue will be released December 10 – the article is online here.

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In short, according to the latest issue of Europe's news magazine, it became clear that the exclusion of right-wing extremists in Europe did not stop them. This is why he formed a coalition with the FPÖ, founded by unrepentant National Socialists after the Second World War, but which also has neo-Nazi elements in its ranks.

In short, could capture the hottest topics

In short, he understood how to grasp Europe's burning problems such as "identity, Islam and immigration" for his own needs. The "Time Magazine" tells in the episode the rise of the young politician of ÖVP who became, with the "closure of the Balkan route", the "national hero" of the Austrian rural region.

However, it would not be easier for Kurz to "moderate his right-wing partners" or "at least to control their dark instincts". It was never his intention, badyzes the "Time Magazine" after discussions in the Chancellor's environment. "There is no coalition to change its partners," said National Council President Wolfgang Sobotka (ÖVP). PS: "We are not educators."

In short, the "Time Magazine" report, which summarizes in detail its political development, also presents the following sentence: "Whether you like it or not, the people ultimately decide". The objection of American journalists that the Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler had been legitimately brought to power by the people had "overshadowed" Kurz 's mood during the interview: "We must pay attention to such comparisons … was not a functioning democracy. "

Newsweek Coverage in October

In October, Newsweek, another influential news magazine in the United States, made him a title hero. At that time, "Austria Rising" ("Austria rises") was next to the head of the ÖVP.

Cover photos with Austrians have appeared several times on the cover of "Time" over the past decades: in September 2016, the former FPÖ presidential candidate, Norbert Hofer, and the leader of the FPÖ party , Heinz-Christian Strache, have been shown there. Under the title "The new faces of the right", the two members of the Freedom Party were seen during an election appearance in the presidential election.

Inside, "Time" was about right-wing populist movements in Europe. Austria is an example of the continent's right-wing drift as a result of refugee movements and nationalist currents. The original country of Adolf Hitler was the first country in Western Europe since the fall of Nazi Germany to choose a president of the far right, judged at the 39th. time by "Time".

Already in the 1990s and early 2000s, the speech that Austria "could" not "right" was repeatedly in "Time". This is what the former leader of FPÖ and governor of Carinthia, Jörg Haider, has rented on the title page. But the ski ace Leonhard Stock also climbed on the podium of "Time". His victory in the Olympic downhill of Lake Placid was worth the title for the magazine in February 1980. It was called completely apolitical "daredevil on skis" …