Austria - Immigration decides election?

More elections may be decided on that issue.

Many Austrians are convinced that the European Union’s expansion will flood the country with people bent on taking their jobs. The new twist, since the heyday of Mr. Haider, is that this suspicion now has an anti-Muslim tinge. “In the 90’s, anti-immigration rhetoric was focused on rising crime and asylum seekers from the Balkans,” said Peter Paul Hajek, a political analyst at the Austrian Marketing Institute, a polling company. “Now it’s more about the clash between Islam and Christianity.”