Austria: Oppositional FPÖ Wants Return to Shilling

CommentOpinion ♦ Published: December 7, 2013; 19:55 ♦ (Vindobona)

The largest Austrian opposition party wants to leave the Eurozone.

Austria: Oppositional FPÖ Wants Return to Shilling / Picture: © Wikipedia / Christian Tschaensky

On the occasion of the party congress of the Austrian Freedom Party (FPÖ), chairman Heinz-Christian Strache was re-elected as party leader. Strache claimed that Austria should leave the Eurozone and return to the Austrian shilling.

„We want an exit strategy. Austria should leave the European Monetary Union and re-introduce the Austrian shilling, backed by gold and silver. We…