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Blue Monday

Reality Check: Styria/Burgenland election analysis; Russian EU blacklist; future of journalism; cancer treatment breakthrough.

Austria Politics

2015 has been dubbed a “Superwahljahr” for Austria, because four elections for state assemblies are being held. On Sunday people in Styria and Burgenland went to the polls, and delivered a slap in the face to the main two parties, the SPÖ and the ÖVP. The FPÖ was the big winner, nearly trebling its share of the vote in Styria.

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Landeshauptmann Franz Voves of the SPÖ (l) and Mario Kunasek, FPÖ (r) after Sunday's state election in Styria.

The results of both elections raise important questions for the future of politics at the regional level, with elections coming up later this year in Vienna and Upper Austria, as well as for the national parties. We discuss these questions with Eva Linsinger, head of the political section of the weekly magazine Profil:

Russia’s EU blacklist

Why has the Kremlin banned 89 politicians from 17 European countries from entering Russia and why has that only been revealed now? Charles Maynes reports:

The future of journalism

Thomas Kunkel, journalism expert and author talks about the changing face of journalism, what makes a good journalist and his latest book.

Cancer breakthrough

Andy Coughlan from New Scientist tells us about new cancer treatments which scientists in the United States say harness the body’s own immune system to destroy deadly tumours.

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