Jörg Haider's party to expand into Germany

By Tony Paterson 
Tuesday, 26 October 2010

Austria's far-right Freedom Party has announced plans to expand into neighbouring Germany, where it hopes to join forces with another militant anti-Islamic group and campaign against Turkey's accession to the European Union as part of a widening bid for political power.


The party, which swept to power in Austria under the leadership of the late Jörg Haider a decade ago, made huge gains in Vienna elections earlier this month when it won 26 per cent of the vote and overnight became the city's second most powerful party. 


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Disgracefully, Turkey's EU accession bid is going nowhere soon

As a weak Europe frets over Turkey's membership, the booming south-eastern nation is increasingly thinking: why bother?
Martin Kettle, guardian.co.uk, Thursday 28 October 2010 20.30 BST

Seen from Turkey, the squabble about the EU budget seems like fiddling while Brussels burns. In the Turkish perspective, the large issues for Europe should not be the latest carve-up of the budgetary cake, or the palace power struggle between the European parliament and the member states, or even the necessary budgetary disciplines that Germany demands of its more rule-resistant partners and to which economically booming Turkey, unlike its economically wracked neighbour Greece, could sign up with barely a second's thought.

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