#Austria has long been the canary in Europe’s coal mine.
In the 1990s, for example, the country was the cradle for a new form of slick, right-wing populism fuelled by a toxic mix of anti-foreigner, nationalist rhetoric that has since taken hold from Athens to Aarhus.
https://www.euractiv.com/section/politics/opinion/the-brief-austrian-barbarians-at-europes-gate/