Austria: Freedom Party Admits Complicity

People ♦ Published: March 19, 2014; 11:12 ♦ (Vindobona)

The Austrian Freedom Party (FPÖ) admits that it was also to blame for the disaster around Hypo Group Alpe Adria.

FPÖ's party leader Heinz-Christian Strache sees his party’s share of complicity to be only one third, and only with regard to the liability in the event of bank failure. / Picture: © www.hcstrache.at / Press Photo

However, party leader of the FPÖ Heinz-Christian Strache sees his party’s share of complicity to be only one third, and only with regard to the liability in the event of bank failure, which was approved by the provincial government of Carinthia. In an interview during the news program “ZiB2” of the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation (ORF) on Tuesday evening, he did not show…