AUSTRIA OR THE EUROPEAN UNION – WHO ARE THE FASCISTS?

Dateline: 1st February 2000

The attack by the European Union on the Austrian voters' democratic choice of coalition parties is as unprecedented as it is hypocritical.

Jorg Haider of the Austrian Freedom Party is attacked as extremist by Tony Blair whose own bankrolling by big business, whose combination of corporatist capital and socialist politics in New Labour and whose "thousand days to prepare for a thousand years" are more than reminiscent of the German-Austrian Fascism of which he accuses Haider.

It is Haider who opposes expansion to the East which the European Union is pursuing as ruthlessly as 1930s Germany pursued their "Drang nach Osten". The idea that the European Union is bringing democracy by imposing on the newly emancipated nations of Eastern Europe a system which undermines their constitutions, emasculates their parliaments, takes over their businesses and changes their citizenship is just laughable – or rather it would be laughable if it were not so tragic.

The countries of Eastern and South Eastern Europe have seen in the break up of Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia an exact reprise of the activities of Nazi Germany, carried out not by the Jorg Haiders of this world but by the European Union. If Haider has mimicked Goebbels then so has the European Union when they accused Serbs of ethnic cleansing, and like 1940s Fascism, also did the cleansing - of a million Serbs and thousands of gypsies.