The ÖVP, SPÖ, Greens and NEOS unanimously rejected the criticism within the generally heated debate and accused the FPÖ of working towards Austria’s pursuits within the EU Parliament.
In the beginning of the talk, Petra Steger, FPÖ candidate for the EU elections, launched a basic reckoning with the European Union, whose course might solely be described as “absolute insanity”. Steger described the EU as a “venture of alienation from the unique venture” that’s working in the direction of the break of the member states. Along with “irrational local weather fanaticism,” the FPÖ MP additionally castigated the “destruction of wealth” by the EU and its “unbelievable warmongering.”
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This brought on huge criticism from the opposite events. European Minister Karoline Edtstadler (ÖVP) accused the FPÖ of utilizing its marketing campaign towards the EU to unfold insinuations that had nothing to do with the EU, to fire up worry and to unfold pretend information. Edtstadler additionally described it as “incomprehensible” and “shameful” that the FPÖ was unable to obviously identify the aggressor Russia in reference to the Ukraine battle. The Freedom Get together would work towards the pursuits of the Austrians with their EU assaults, stated the ÖVP’s prime EU candidate, Reinhold Lopatka.
