Austria, Federal Ministry of the Interior, Directorate State Protection and Intelligence Service (Direktion Staatsschutz und Nachrichtendienst) (2023), Annual Report on the Protection of the Constitution (Verfassungsschutzbericht 2022).
Country
Austria
Title
Austria, Federal Ministry of the Interior, Directorate State Protection and Intelligence Service (Direktion Staatsschutz und Nachrichtendienst) (2023), Annual Report on the Protection of the Constitution (Verfassungsschutzbericht 2022).
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Year
2023
Publication type
Report - official data on incidents
Geographical coverage
National
Area/location of interest
Not applicable - national level
Type of Institution
Public authority
Institution
Austria, Federal Ministry of the Interior, Directorate State Protection and Intelligence Service (Direktion Staatsschutz und Nachrichtendienst)
Thematic focus
Hate crime
Groups
General population
Key findings
This report provides an insight into the areas of responsibility of the Directorate State Protection and Intelligence Service of the Austrian Federal Ministry of the Interior as well as current challenges and possible future developments. According to the analysis provided in the report, the far-right scene in Austria has been represented by two main currents for around a decade: traditional neo-Nazism on the one hand and the ‘New Right’ on the other. Leading groups and circles have established themselves in both the neo-Nazi movement and the ‘New Right’, which attempted to realise the defined goal with the help of different topics during the observation period. First and foremost, the anti-Islam, anti-asylum and xenophobic explanatory patterns should be mentioned here, but also the clearly recognisable ambition to fuel existing hostility towards democracy with radical fundamentalist criticism of the official COVID-19 measures.
Methodology (Qualitative/Quantitative and exact type used, questionnaires etc)
Qualitative analysis of different forms of extremism in Austria, including current trends and countermeasures.
Sample details and representativeness
N/A - not applicable/available
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