ÖVP sees mockery of all taxpayers
Marcus Wölbitsch, the club chairman of the Viennese ÖVP, takes the same line. To say that everything is fine is, for him, a “mockery of all taxpayers”, because following all, “if something happens, they have to pay for it”. For him it is striking that no other state energy supplier has liquidity problems. “This Friday was just a tsunami for Wien Energie,” sums up Wölbitsch.
The FPÖ wants to send crisis intervention teams to Ukraine’s neighboring countries and set up refugee camps here.
War is raging once more in Europe and the first people are already leaving their homeland behind. While the battle for the Ukrainian capital of Kiev between Ukrainian and Russian soldiers is now in full swing, almost the whole of the rest of Europe is expressing its full support for Ukraine. As reported by “Heute”, in addition to several state governors, representatives of the federal government have also shown themselves open to accepting refugees from the war zone.
FPÖ wants to see preparations
Naturally, Herbert Kickl is a little more reserved when it comes to taking in refugees. The FPÖ leader rumbles once once more in a broadcast and calls on Chancellor Karl Nehammer and representatives of the federal government not to repeat the mistakes of the past. “If ÖVP Chancellor Nehammer has been announcing for days that Austria will of course take in people fleeing Ukraine, it would also be high time to communicate the corresponding preparations openly,” said Kickl and his party colleague Hannes Amesbauer.
First Ukrainian refugees in Vienna
The Blues point out that, in their opinion, several mistakes have already been made in the past and that there has been an unbridled wave of migration that has brought Austria to its borders. Although it is also self-evident for the blue politicians that Austria must help in this “precarious situation”, the FPÖ leaves it partially open how this is to be done.
Accordingly, Kickl and Amesbauer are appealing to the EU to set up refugee camps in neighboring Ukrainian countries immediately. After that, the Freedom Party wants to send crisis intervention teams to these camps to ensure the psychological care of the refugees. Apparently, the FPÖ does not want to take in people seeking protection in Austria for the time being. “In any case, it must not happen that illegal mass immigration from one side continues unimpressed and acutely seeking protection from the other side, without any concept, enter the already totally overburdened asylum system,” said the two FPÖ politicians.
Today’s news ticker regarding the war in Ukraine
However, the central core of the Freedom Party’s policy remains that Austria should remain neutral in the conflict between Ukraine and Russia. The FPÖ therefore lets it be known: “Only swinging the sanction club alone will ultimately not be enough”.
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Vienna (OTS) – “To make less out of more service for the citizens or even to construct a ‘break’ in communication, that has to come to mind first. Spreading such ‘fake news’, is that the ‘attitude’ with which the crown is applying itself?” commented FPÖ General Secretary NAbg today. Michael Schnedlitz reported in the Kronen Zeitung that the FPÖ had “cut the line with the citizens”.
However, the above report shows how some work in the media. The corresponding request from the Krone editor was answered by the FPÖ press office as follows: “The changeover to the online form in the FPÖ citizens’ office took place because the Federal Government’s failed corona policy led to more and more telephone inquiries and callers often had to wait in line for up to an hour. After entering the request in the form, the employees of the FPÖ citizens’ office will contact the citizens. The entry via the contact form also enables the Citizens Advice Bureau to search for information on the requested topic in advance in order to ensure a satisfactory answer. The telephone numbers of the FPÖ federal office and the Liberal Parliamentary Club can also be found on the ‘Team’ subpage and in the imprint.”
“This means that citizens can contact us both by telephone and, in a first step, using a form. The hundreds of emails and calls that reach us every week prove that these opportunities are used intensively. A very common topic when contacting us via form and telephone: the tendentious reporting of some media,” says Schnedlitz.
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