Federal Chancellor Dr. Bruno Kreisky overcame the peculiar isolation in Warsaw – Vienna contacts. The first major event in the history of mutual relations after World War II was a visit of the then Foreign Minister in Warsaw on 1-3 March, 1960. In the following years this politician paid four more visits in Poland as Chancellor in June 1973, January-February 1975, September 1976 and November 1979. The course of the visits and assessment of their effects provide insight into the role of Austria in the diplomatic activity of the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the 1970s. The basic source of information on the assessment of Kreisky’s motives as a social democratic politician and a commentary on Austria’s foreign policy towards Poland is in the archives of the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs for the years 1972-1980.
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The Austrian People’s Party endeavoured to regain an above-half majority of mandates in the National Council in the 1970 parliamentary elections. However, it failed to achieve this goal, even though the balance of the unicolor ÖVP government was not bad at all. The People’s Party failed to adequately respond to the transformations of Austrian society, it presented a faulty pre-election campaign based on out-dated methods. Some members of the public also disagreed with some of its measures, particularly in the economic sphere. And finally, it faced well-prepared competition in the form of the SPÖ lead by the charismatic Bruno Kreisky. The results of the elections in spring 1970 began the greatest crisis in the history of the ÖVP, which the party took several years to recover from.
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