OPEN LETTER TO THE MEMBERS OF THE
EU-PARLIAMENT

Ladies and Gentlemen,
Following the European elections the Austrian Freedom Party (FPÖ: Freiheitliche Partei Österreichs) now only has one representative in the European Parliament. This person is the Carinthian publicist Andreas Mölzer, who was able to overtake the FPÖ’s primary candidate by means of the preferred candidate voting system. In many parts of the Austrian media Mölzer is described euphemistically as a »German Nationalist« or »Nationalist Liberal« or even re-assessed as a »Right-wing Intellectual«.
In the enclosed you will find material which clearly documents the extreme right-wing and racist background of Andreas Mölzer. It includes Mölzer’s conviction for the dissemination of National Socialist thinking and his polemics against the prohibition of Austrian annexation to Germany and also his essays against »typical Slav passivity« und »ethno-cultural intrusion« as »levelling to the most simple civilising denominator«. Repeated preliminary investigations into Andreas Mölzer’s weekly newssheet ZUR ZEIT on account of its anti-semitic articles and playing down of Nazi atrocities are also documented. Finally we have included reports on constitutional protection and a dossier from the Documentation Archive of the Austrian Resistance.
Without wishing to overstate the significance of Andreas Mölzer we do believe that his entry into the European Parliament is connected with the danger of an increase in approval for right-wing thinking. If he should succeed in presenting himself as a respectable European politician, this would give a fatal signal, in and for Austria in particular. We therefore appeal to you to offer your new »colleague« no opportunity to raise his profile, not even through »cooperation in political matters«. Please support the democratic public in Austria and clearly refuse to condone any and all political forces that seek to spread racist and National Socialist thinking under the justification of freedom of opinion or plurality.
With our best wishes

Angelika Hödl & Gerhard Pilgram, IG KIKK
Klagenfurt/Celovec, 23. 07. 2004

PS: This campaign has the support of the Carinthian Green Party