Poster published in 1949 in order to inform the Austrian people of how the US economic aid provided under the Marshall Plan is being put to use in Austria.

On 24 June 1994, in Corfu, Franz Vranitzky, Federal Chancellor of Austria, and Alois Mock, Austrian Foreign Minister, sign Austria’s Treaty of Accession to the European Union. In his address, Thomas Klestil, President of the Republic of Austria, refers to the time-honoured role played by his country in European politics.

In this interview, Jean-Jacques Kasel, Permanent Representative of Luxembourg to the Council of the European Communities, then to the Council of the European Union, from 1992 to 1998, discusses the main aspects of the negotiations for accession to the European Union held with Austria, Finland, Norway and Sweden.

In 1974, at a conference held in Austria on the economic and political situation in Europe, Archduke Otto von Habsburg-Lothringen, President of the International Paneuropean Union, emphasises the need for a precise interpretation of Austria’s neutral status, which in no way precludes the country from becoming a member of political or economic organisations.

In this interview excerpt, Édouard Molitor, Luxembourg Ambassador to Vienna and Permanent Representative to the United Nations in Vienna from 1978 to 1989, shares his thoughts on the positions taken by the various Austrian political leaders in the 1980s on the question of Austria’s potential accession to the European Communities.

In 1945, the Communist Party of Austria (KPÖ) draws up a detailed plan for the economic, political and social reconstruction of post-war Austria.

In May 1994, the Socialist Party of Austria (SPÖ) calls on the Austrian people to vote ‘Yes’ in the national referendum to be held on 12 June 1994 regarding Austria’s accession to the European Union.

The Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) calls on the Austrian people to vote ‘No’ in the referendum organised on 12 June 1994 in Austria regarding the country’s accession to the European Union.

In 1989, the Communist Party of Austria (KPÖ) expresses its opposition to Austria’s accession to the European Communities.

‘Fifty years of our life.’ In 1968, the Austrian cartoonist, Ironimus, illustrates in his own inimitable style 50 years (from 1918 to 1968) of Austrian political and military life.