The government and centre-right CDU are trying to outbid each other in toughness, as the anti-immigration AfD looks likely to win another regional election.
Media reports suggest that a grand coalition between the centre-right and centre-left is already forming.
Donald Tusk says he signed off a judicial appointment by mistake—and now wants to remove his signature.
The conservative government’s initiative has stirred up European politics.
If Brussels “wants us to let them in, we will let them in—put them on the bus, and drop them off in front of Ursula von der Leyen’s office,” a Fidesz spokesman said.
Voters view migration as the number one concern, but for establishment parties, the priority is preventing the AfD from becoming the strongest force in the state.
The left-wing opposition is using the case to undermine cabinet credibility.
The timing of the account closure strongly suggests another ‘debanking’ scandal.
Austrian authorities found Islamist propaganda on the gunman’s phone back in 2023, but the public prosecutor’s office dropped the case against him.
Tusk’s opponents called the move by the state an attempt to “eliminate the only strong opposition party.”
Austrian police had previously identified him as a suspected terrorist but failed to act on the information.
The incident happened on the anniversary of the Munich massacre of 1972.
