In 1988, one year before Austria’s official application for accession to the European Communities, the Federation of Austrian Industry (VÖI) produces a film which highlights the benefits that accession would bring to the Austrian industrial and business sector.

On 13 November 1972, at a conference on Europe held at the Palais Pálffy in Vienna, Edmund P. Wellenstein, Head of the European Commission Delegation for the negotiations on the enlargement of the European Communities, outlines the nature of the specific difficulties arising for Austria in connection with the redefining of relations between the European Economic Community (EEC) and the European Free Trade Association (EFTA).

In this interview excerpt, Édouard Molitor, Luxembourg Ambassador to Vienna and Permanent Representative to the United Nations in Vienna from 1978 to 1989, discusses the consequences of the ‘Waldheim Affair’ on relations between Luxembourg and Austria. In 1986, Luxembourg Foreign Minister Jacques F. Poos refused to congratulate Kurt Waldheim on his election as President of the Austrian Republic, preferring to wait for the results of investigations into Waldheim’s past in the Germany army during the Second World War.

On 1 February 1956, Per Fischer, Secretary of the General Affairs Committee of the Consultative Assembly of the Council of Europe, sends a memorandum to the Registrar of the Assembly in which he outlines the attitude of Austria towards the Council of Europe.

On 1 May 1992, some 400 people take to the streets of Vienna to demonstrate against Austria’s accession to the European Union.

On 1 May 1992, people opposed to Austria’s accession to the European Union demonstrate in the streets of Vienna.

In October 1951, the poster for the film ‘Four in a Jeep’, by the Swiss Director, Leopold Lindtberg, gives a romantic portrayal of the daily life of the Allied military police during the occupation of Austria.

In this interview, Manfred Scheich, Austrian Ambassador to the European Communities from 1983 to 1986, outlines the basis of Austria’s European integration policy in the early 1980s.