Talk:Politics of Austria

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wasn't there a major 'house cleaning' ? the whole gov't stepped down didn't it? the whole jorg haider thing?

I've never heard the terms ‘upper house’ or ‘lower-house’ in context of the Austrian parliament. Is there reason for using these terms here? -- 131.130.1.135 13:45, 21 Oct 2003 (UTC)

Those are political science terms, they're commonly used with respect to any nation with a bicameral legislature.

The Federal Assembly of Austria should not be mistaken with the parliament. It is a third parliamentary body, which consists of the two houses. It is the joint assembly of the Nationalrat and the Bundesrat. See [1] for further details. Gugganij 14:36, 5 Jul 2004 (UTC)

The ‘Parlament’ is only the name of the building housing those bodies. Their names are Nationalrat, Bundesrat and Bundesversammlung as you mention correctly. Nevertheless even Austrian media calls the Nationalrat ‘Parlament’ from time to time. --Wirthi 19:13, 12 August 2005 (UTC)

I removed following information:

  • Ambassador to the United States - Peter Moser
  • Ambassador to the United Nations - Gerhard Pflanzelter

Austria maintains an embassy in the United States at 3524 International Court, NW, Washington, DC 20008 (te1. 202-895-6700). Consulates general are located in New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles, with honorary consulates in Atlanta, Boston, Buffalo, Cleveland, Denver, Honolulu, Houston, Miami, New Orleans, Newark, Philadelphia, St. Paul, San Francisco, San Juan, and Seattle.

Resons: 1. I don't think that ambassadors are principal government officials. 2. Information of Austrian embassies in the US might be better placed in a separate article US-Austrian relations than in an article covering politics of Austria.

I edited the government part and realized only after that I duplicated parts of Constitution of Austria again. But I think they are necessary to give a consistent overview. At least it should be better than the previous version which contained factual errors like "neither president nor cabinet are answerable to the legislature" and "state-approved, compulsory-membership labor unions". Ixi 17:07, 25 Jan 2005 (UTC)

[edit] update

Jörg Haider is no longer Leader of the FPÖ

[edit] federal states

It's not quite correct that the states of Austria have no independant iurisdiction, because Austrian iurisdiction is generally independant from legislation and execution, iurisdiction doesn't fall into the federal system of Austria. Anyway, first instances in the iurisdictional process are normally based on the different nine states and not on the whole country.

  • Yes it is quite correct. Jurisdiction does certainly fall within the federal system in Austria. The constitution clearly specifies in Art. 82 that "Alle Gerichtsbarkeit geht vom Bund aus.", ie all jurisdiction is a federal matter. "Urteile... werden im Namen der Republik verkündet und ausgefertigt.", all rulings and judgments are to be pronounced and executed in the name of the republic. Bottom line: all courts are federal in nature. Unlike, say, Germany, or the US, of course, there are absolutely no state courts in Austria. Greil 12:46, 29 October 2007 (UTC)