Austria and Europe initiative

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The Austria and Europe initiative was launched in November 1988 by an independent group of people around the former Foreign Ministers Erich Bielka and Erwin Lanc and the top diplomat Ambassador Hans Thalberg in order to counter the "one-sided manipulation of public opinion" on the question of an EC, which is vital for Austria -To perform at the entrance. As experts in international law, the initiators rejected the thesis that Austria's neutrality should be interpreted “unilaterally and completely freely”. In particular, they cited Article IV of the State Treaty, which prohibits all measures “which would be suitable to directly or indirectly promote a political or economic union with Germany”. Austria would be obliged to an independence “that goes beyond the extent that states are entitled to give up”. The government's integration policy was rejected as “one-dimensional” and “dominated by interest groups”.