Once a year, the Viennese faction of the Austrian Freedom Party (FPOe) invites members and friends of the Burschenschaften (student fraternities) to a ball night at the city’s imperial Hofburg palace.
On 24 January the ball was held once again. It is a platform for the biggest networking meeting of right-wing parties and representatives in Europe.
Ever since its beginnings, in 1952, the annual event has polarised public opinion and within the last few years it attracted th...
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