Austria elects a millennial immigration hard-liner<\/a> in the race for Austria’s Chancellorship:<\/p>\n Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz declared victory on Sunday in the race to become Austria\u2019s chancellor, becoming the youngest head of state in the West. The 31-year-old\u00a0Kurz\u00a0and the center-right People’s Party\u00a0defeated the Social Democratic Party, which was the largest party in the Austrian parliament before Sunday.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Austria – a nation with about the same\u00a0 population as Minnesota and the Dakotas put together – has been on the front line of Europe’s immigration crisis.\u00a0 The rise of the Austrian\u00a0Volkspartei\u00a0\u00a0<\/em>(Peoples Party) – which is called “far right”,- is not uncoincident with the rise of Trump in the US, and other parties that are demanding a very un-Euro, un-“progressive” approach to immigration in time of anti-western extremism.<\/p>\n (Here’s a take from the center-right German\u00a0<\/a>\u02c6Frankfurter Allgemeine\u02c6<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Austria elects a millennial immigration hard-liner in the race for Austria’s Chancellorship: Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz declared victory on Sunday in the race to become Austria\u2019s chancellor, becoming the youngest head of state in the West. The 31-year-old\u00a0Kurz\u00a0and the center-right People’s Party\u00a0defeated the Social Democratic Party, which was the largest party in the Austrian parliament […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[109,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sovereignty","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64819"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64820,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64819\/revisions\/64820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}