The race for the Presidency of Austria is too close to call in the initial hours after the polls closed on 22 May. The winner between eurosceptic and anti-immigration, far-right Freedom Party candidate Norbert Hofer and former Green Party leader Alexander Van der Bellen will probably be decided once all postal ballots have been counted in the course of Monday, 23 May. In either case, the signs of old, nationalistic and intolerant ghosts reappearing in Europe are a major cause for concern…
The editorial team of Katoikos
