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Originally Posted by ianch99
We are currently on holiday in Graz, Austria and there are banners out saying "Refugees welcome". No one we have spoken to has expressed the "Not our problem" attitude prevalent in this country. Our hosts here have recently come back from eastern Austria where they were volunteering in helping the refugees coming into Austria near the border with Hungary. They said "what should we do? Just watch these people and do nothing? Yes there is a need for long term refugee camps nearer where they are fleeing but until then, do we just watch them struggle?"
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Hope you enjoy, I consider Austria my 2nd home and live just an hour away near Graz. Also Styrian pumpkinseed oil is a DOP product and used more than olive oil; the locals swear by it
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Originally Posted by Osem
That may in part be because Austria hasn't seen mass migration on the scale we have over the last decade or more and doesn't yet have all the associated problems of integrating vast numbers of people of vastly different cultures. Sooner or later their welcome will evaporate as they experience more of the problems seen elsewhere across Europe and they become a long term issue which ordinary people realise isn't going away any time soon. In the UK the problems of mass migration aren't distributed equally with certain major towns/cities seeing massive changes and pressures whilst other places remain largely isolated from them. No wonder therefore that some people complain or are more welcoming than others. The argument isn't whether hostility will develop, it's merely a question of how long it takes and the evidence is there to see across the EU.
Let's see how long the welcome banners remain when their public spaces become occupied and despoiled, services become stretched, tensions rise, fights break out amongst rival migrant groups and crime inevitably results as we're now seeing in Germany.
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Whilst the FPO have had this core support for a number of years (Austria equivalent of a stronger UKIP) on the whole Austria always wants to do what is best and his a very much foreward thinking country. To say it has little experience is wrong asAustria was one of the main countries where refugees fled the Yugoslavia conflict in the 90's which was on their borders. for a population of just shy of 8 1/2 million, they are coping rather well