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Date: Wed, 25 Jun 1997 12:26:29 -0700
From: mnovickttt-AT-igc.org (Michael Novick)
Subject: AUT: Vienna Racism Observatory Opens Soon


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>EU Racism Bureau in Vienna
>
>The Austrian liberal daily =F4Der Standard=F6 reported on
>Tuesday, June 3, 1997 that the EU will be locating its
>=F4Observation Centre for Racism and Nativism=F6
>(Beobachtungsstelle fuer Rassismus und Fremdenfeindlichkeit)
>in the Austrian capital. This will be the first EU authority
>to be situated in Austria. It will employ a staff of 25 to
>collect data on nativist acts in Europe incorporating this
>material in a computer archive. The Vienna bureau is
>projected to open this year.
>
>Vienna is certainly the best EU state capital to host this
>authority considering that Austria is the only member state
>to still officially practice nativism and racism. According
>to the EU Commission=C6s own Dublin Foundation, =F4the legal
>regime in Austria produces racism instead of combating it.=F6
>(Preventing Racism 1996, 72) This long standing tradition,
>which dates back to the Habsburg Empire, manifests itself
>mainly in the fields of social welfare policy, employment,
>and labour union affairs.
>
>Only when lions have their own historians will history not
>glorify the hunters.=F6 (African saying)
>
>If the new Vienna bureau is to truly study racism in Europe
>then the Austrian government, now officially recognised as
>being racist, should have as little influence on the
>start-up and staff choices as possible. Furthermore it is
>very likely that the social partners, especially the labour
>unions (OeGB) and Chamber of Labour (Arbeiterkammer) will
>attempt to prevent social policy, welfare, employment, and
>union organisation from being studied by the new bureau. One
>reason for this is the singular and very unusual policy of
>the OeGB preventing its Southern Slav and Turkish/Kurdish
>members from becoming shop stewards, union functionaries,
>and Chamber of Labour functionaries.
>
>

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