Joerg Haider, an Austrian conundrum

摘要

"He wants to be chancellor," says Joschka Fischer, Germany's Green foreign minister, gloomily of Joerg Haider, leader of Austria's far-right Freedom Party, which has just entered a coalition government, to the consternation of the other 14 countries in the eu. Hardly surprising—but it is one of the very few things about Mr Haider on which practically everybody agrees. Another is the fickleness of his opinions; he seems to change them as often as his nattily casual clothes. On just about everything else, it is extraordinarily hard to pin the real Mr Haider down.