{"id":59790,"date":"2017-12-30T11:26:36","date_gmt":"2017-12-30T11:26:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=59790"},"modified":"2017-12-30T11:26:36","modified_gmt":"2017-12-30T11:26:36","slug":"ex-eu-leaders-call-for-boycott-of-austrian-ministers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/ex-eu-leaders-call-for-boycott-of-austrian-ministers\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-EU leaders call for boycott of Austrian ministers"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>A group of former EU leaders called on European governments not to receive Austrian ministers from the far-right party and to boycott Austria&#8217;s EU presidency in the second half of 2018.<\/h2>\n<p>\u201cLet\u2019s not turn our eyes away: The heirs of Nazism have come into power in the new Austrian government,\u201d read the open letter published on French daily Le Monde Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are all concerned as we are all being threatened by the fatal ideology of hatred.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The conservative chancellor Sebastian Kurz&#8217;s new coalition government, formed by Austrian People\u2019s Party (OVP) and Freedom Party of Austria (FPO), has an anti-Islam and anti-immigrant stance.<\/p>\n<p>The Signatories included former French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner, former Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Moratinos, Canada&#8217;s ex-premier Kim Campbell, president of anti-racism movement in Europe Benjamin Abtan, Nobel Peace Prize winner and former East Timorese President Jose Ramos-Horta and the veteran \u201cNazi hunters\u201d Beate and Serge Klarsfeld.<\/p>\n<p>Freedom Party of Austria (FPO) slammed the call as a \u201ctransparent manoeuvre\u201d and a \u201clast-ditch attempt of the united left.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No serious current politician will attach importance to these voices from the political past,&#8221; FPO&#8217;s secretary-general Harald Vilimsky responded Friday in a statement.<\/p>\n<!-- Error, Advert is not available at this time due to schedule\/geolocation restrictions! -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group of former EU leaders called on European governments not to receive Austrian ministers from the far-right party and to boycott Austria&#8217;s EU presidency in the second half of 2018. \u201cLet\u2019s not turn our eyes away: The heirs of Nazism have come into power in the new Austrian government,\u201d read the open letter published &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":59791,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,118,101,14],"tags":[1386],"class_list":["post-59790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-hot","category-politics","category-world","tag-nobel-peace-prize"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59790\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}