Contrary to all gloomy prophecies, the three-party coalition has survived its first year with a few scratches but is basically functional and can move into its second with encouragement, if not overconfidence. For her birthday, her bitterest critic gave her a solo performance, which even her other sponsor, her Crown newspapersaw as clear evidence “that Herbert Kickl, after decades in politics, does not have the spark of a plan for the economy and thus for the well-being of Austrians.”
