Archivo etiqueta «Austria»
By Fergal Davis, a lecturer in law at Lancaster University (THE GUARDIAN, 07/07/10):
I am a judicial review sceptic – I do not trust courts to effectively secure our freedoms. In my view, rights are political – to secure them we must place them at the centre of politics and not rely on the judicial elite to keep us free from tyranny. As a result, I have argued that:
The unintended consequence of support for the Human Rights Act (HRA) is that it perpetuates the process of juridification – leaving rights as an issue to be dealt with by
By Hugo Rifkin (THE TIMES, 24/10/08):
Honestly, why can’t the far Right just get its act together? I don’t expect much from my recidivist Hitlerian bogeyman. A coherent desire for humanity to be ground under the jackbooted heels of the armies of the night, that’ll do me. Is it too much to ask?
Seems so. Jörg Haider, wherever you are, you’re a big disappointment. For a while, I really thought you were the one we were waiting for. You liked the Nazis, you really weren’t fond of Jews. You were an anti-immigrant populist, and finally, you seemed destined for real … Seguir leyendo
Por Slavenka Drakulic, escritora croata y autora de No matarían ni una mosca. Traducción de María Luisa Rodríguez Tapia (EL PAÍS, 24/10/08):
El político austriaco de extrema derecha -y el populista más famoso de Europa- Jörg Haider murió a los 58 años, en un accidente al estilo hollywoodiense de James Dean, en la madrugada del sábado 11 de octubre. Iba solo en su coche y trataba de adelantar a otro cuando perdió el control y se salió de la carretera cerca de su amada ciudad de Klagenfurt. Iba a 140 kilómetros por hora en un lugar en el que … Seguir leyendo
By Richard J. Evans, Regius Professor of Modern History at the University of Cambridge. His book The Third Reich at War 1939-1945 is published by Allen Lane (THE TIMES, 14/10/08):
The death of the Austrian far-right politician Jörg Haider has again focused world attention on his country’s ambivalent attitude to its Nazi past. The son of an SS officer, Haider won notoriety by praising Hitler’s welfare policies and describing concentration camps as work camps. None of this seemed to bother Austrian voters, who gave him and his fellow-travellers a third of the vote in the last elections.
In Italy, … Seguir leyendo
By John Wray, the author of the novels Canaan’s Tongue and The Right Hand of Sleep (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 02/05/08):
Austria, that lovely little Alpine republic on the banks of the Danube, has a new and deeply lamentable claim to international notoriety: As of this past weekend, we officially lead the free world in the abduction and confinement of young girls in soundproof, subterranean apartments.
The summer before last, we had the bizarre — and, to all appearances, unique — case of Natascha Kampusch, who endured eight years’ confinement in a basement cell built by Wolfgang Priklopil, a … Seguir leyendo
The Austrian courts have done the world a favour in exposing David Irving as a noxious opportunist and a coward.
By David Cesarani (THE GUARDIAN, 22/02/06):
The sentence handed down on David Irving by a Viennese court for denying that the Nazis used gas chambers to murder Jews at Auschwitz, and for declaring Hitler innocent of that crime, evidently left him stunned. It also stirred something of a “backlash” in this country, where sections of the media and the intelligentsia persist in seeing Irving as a harmless eccentric with a wayward, if despicable, interpretation of the past.
In the studios … Seguir leyendo
Por Anneliese Rohrer, jefa de la sección de Internacional del diario austriaco Die Presse (EL MUNDO, 10/10/03):
Mientras los californianos acudían a las urnas el pasado martes, en Viena el ministro de Economía austriaco, Karl Heinz Grasser, ponía fin a una entrevista por televisión sobre el déficit presupuestario y la situación económica de la Unión Europea con un enérgico: «¡Le deseo buena suerte a Arnold Schwarzenegger!».Grasser, al igual que todos los austriacos, se ha envanecido de los logros de Schwarzenegger. Esto es así a pesar de que (o quizá precisamente porque) la vida de Arnold Schwarzenegger, un chico de … Seguir leyendo