Voting in the EU elections begins Thursday and ends on SundayAustria’s far-right Freedom party has controversially campaigned with posters portraying Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, and the European Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen, embracing, with the slogan: “Stop EU madness.”“It is like Peskov, when he has press conferences,” said Reinhold Lopatka, lead candidate for the Austrian People’s party, referring to Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov.The problem is that you have, each week, criminal cases like the stabbing of this policeman in Mannheim – and Austria is always in the media coverage very close to Germany.If something is in Germany, it always reaches Austria. So all this with AfD, this far-right wing party, and all these discussions of remigration and all this, one or two days later we have the same discussion here in Vienna.”This is the way how we try to keep voters on our side. Say, ‘yes, we have a problem. It’s a big problem, but we are working for a solution.’And it is always my saying, the far-right wing parties, they don’t want the solution. They live from the problem. They get their support through the problem, so they are not interested in solving the problem. This is the big difference. Continue reading...
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