European Action: National Leader resigns

The "Volksblatt" Liechtenstein
Monday - 24th September 2012

European Action: Liechtenstein National Leader resigns

VADUZ - The pressure that the [Liechtensteiner] government and Parliament applied last Thursday has had its effect. In an e-mail that the „Volksblatt“ received this evening, National Leader Oliver Hasler has abruptly decided to distance himself from European Action.

“I have made the decision to declare the withdrawal as National Leader of Liechtenstein and all other offices of European Action (Europäischen Aktion). As a young man at the beginning of my career I want to deny the opinion dictators the opportunity to destroy my personal existence”, writes Hasler.

In a telephone conversation that evening Oliver Hasler confirmed to “Volksblatt.li" that he was indeed the author of the email letter. Hasler lamented the fact that in accordance with the claims of Member of Parliament Harry Quaderer laws will be adopted in Liechtenstein with the purpose of “removing persons with nationalist ideals from the political process”. This is in his opinion a “highly dubious interpretation of political pluralism which reveals the lack of democracy of present times”. Hasler emphasized that he fully agrees with the government to adopt a zero-tolerance policy against the far right and politically-motivated perpetrators of violence. “This I can emphasize because I dissociate myself from any accusations of right-wing extremism, racism and xenophobia.”

Last Thursday Interior Minister Hugo Quaderer stated: “The fact that a Liechtensteiner as the National Leader of a far right group such as EA makes a speech abroad together with Holocaust deniers and former Nazis is problematic and disgraceful at the same time. The government also wants to make it quite clear it condemns the incomprehensible blood and soil ideology of this group. Far right-wing ideology has no place in our society."

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Passionate appeal against far-right "European Action"

The "Volksblatt" Liechtenstein
Wednesday - 19th September 2012

Passionate appeal against far-right "European Action" 

VADUZ - With a passionate appeal against the far right "European Action" at the beginning of the September session on Wednesday the independent Member of Parliament Harry Quaderer voiced his opinion.

"It cannot be that we must allow the citizens of Liechtenstein be bombarded with radical right-wing trash of the first order in the form of junk mail in letterboxes. Simply shaking one’s head while watching this is not enough", Quaderer said. If you then also read the speech of the Liechtenstein National Leader Oliver Hasler from Nendeln which he held on the occasion of the EA Europe Festival in Mont Sainte-Odile, one feels as though transported back in time by 70 years.

Quaderer urges government to take action 

 Harry Quaderer asked the President of the Landtag Arthur Brunhart to read a statement at the end of the parliamentary session saying that "this movement demonstrates, that these convictions have no place in the Liechtenstein community. We are against right-wing extremism, we are against Holocaust deniers, we are against racism, we are against the ideas of European Action".

Quaderer simultaneously urged the government to set the wheels in motion "to pull the rug from under the feet of such people and, if necessary, through legislative changes to remove them from the political process.

 Source of article: http://www.volksblatt.li/nachricht.aspx?p1=fl&p2=politik&id=44733&src=vb

Far right EA: Liechtenstein National Leader makes his speech

The "Volksblatt" Liechtenstein
Tuesday - 18th September 2012

Far right EA: Liechtenstein National Leader makes his speech 

SCHAAN/ODILIENBERG - Last weekend, right-wing activists in Liechtenstein distributed leaflets of the "European Action" (EA). A week earlier, the EA "National Leader" Oliver Hasler spoke at the "Europe Festival" on Mount Sainte-Odile in the French Vosges.

Similarly to other far-right groups EA activists want to be politically active but do not want to be identified. Thus, the "Volkstreue Jugend Liechtenstein" (Nationalist Youth Movement of Liechtenstein) - associated with the EA – recently explained their public reclusiveness saying that for "activists loyal to their country" the "established powers" have been declared to be "unacceptable opponents".

FL- National Leader delivers speech to comrades 

On Saturday a week ago (8th September) "European Action" (Europäische Aktion) met for the second time for their "Europe Festival". As it did last year the EA once again unsuccessfully attempted to rent a room in Liechtenstein.

The EA activists found an alternative venue for the event at Mont Sainte-Odile in Alsace, to the southwest of Strasbourg. Among the ten orators this year was also a "23-year" Liechtensteiner. This fact was reported by the organization on its website. His speech received "special attention" because his group had made "the European Action a household name among the Liechtenstein population."

However, the EA does not name the name of the National Leader. As an exception on Thursday last week, however, the name "Oliver Hasler" was online for several hours. Several months ago the name of the young man from Nendeln also appeared on the hacked client list of a mail-order business popular with nationalists.

To read what Oliver Hasler advocated in his speech on Mont Sainte-Odile and who the Holocaust denier was who founded European Action two years ago, see the the 18 September 2012 edition of "Volksblatt". 

The original report (in English) of the EA "Europe Festival" can be read here.

(By Hans Stutz)

 Source of the article: http://www.volksblatt.li/nachricht.aspx?p1=fl&p2=politik&id=44706&src=vb