"Newsweek" raises Kurz on cover: "Austria Rising"

The US news magazine "Newsweek" shows German Chancellor Sebastian Kurz (ÖVP) on the cover of his current international edition. "Austria Rising" stands next to the image of the head of the ÖVP. As the newspaper "Die Presse" writes (online edition), Kurz is "in heroic pose, easy to photograph and smooth from below".

Covering eight pages of cover, the magazine entitled "Sebastian Kurz prepares Europe's future for its darkest past" on eight pages of the current government of the ÖVP and the FPÖ .

For the first time in 100 years, since the end of the Habsburg monarchy – while Austria ruled a large part of Europe for nearly 500 years – the country finds itself once again in a position of power , according to Newsweek. That appeals to young Austrians, for example, who have never known their country "at the top". Many boys would identify at 32 years old.

Support of "open xenophobic" FPÖs

"Newsweek" also writes that Kurz has the support of the "open" FPÖ and right-wing leaders such as Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban or Italian Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini, and is working on the issue of refugees as well as other "right wing populists". At the same time, the economy is growing, unemployment is low and, in foreign policy, Austria behaves like a "little superpower". Quoted as a joke by Federal President Alexander Van der Bellen under the title "Die Presse".

In short, it would be possible to fill the gaps left by French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel through their national political difficulties, said the magazine. Many Austrians have not yet managed to cover Newsweek. The governor of Carinthia, Jörg Haider (FPÖ / BZÖ), died ten years ago.