ABSTRACT
SINCE THE mid 1990s there has been a considerable advance of certain radical right-wing movements ‘from the margins to the mainstream’. This has been nowhere more pronounced than in Austria, where on 4 February 2000, Jörg Haider’s FPÖ succeeded in its ambition to enter national government. The prelude to the formation of the coalition between the FPÖ and the ÖVP caused enormous domestic and international controversy.1 Moreover, the swearing in of the FPÖ ministers triggered the threatened diplomatic ‘measures’ (i.e. sanctions) of 14 of the EU governments and their associates.2
