Anas Schakfeh, president of the Islamic Community in Austria
The Catholic Church and the Islamic Community
"It is hypocritical to invoke the religious argument against an EU accession of Turkey. EU accession should rather be seen as enrichment."
(Press Statement of the Islamic Community in Austria, Islamische Glaubensgemeinschaft in Österreich, at www.derislam.at, May 2004)
Anas Schakfeh, president of the Islamic Community in Austria
- Wolfgang Schüssel, Austrian Chancellor (People's Party) since 2000
- Ursula Plassnik, Austrian Foreign Minister since December 2004
- Reinhold Lopatka, Secretary General of the Austrian People's Party (ÖVP)
- Andreas Khol (People's Party), President of the Austrian National Council
- Benita Ferrero-Waldner (People's Party), EU commissioner for external relations. From 2000 to 2004, Ferrero-Waldner was Austria's foreign minister
- Franz Fischler (former People's Party politician), EU Commissioner for Agriculture, Rural Development, (and Fisheries, from 1999) from 1994 to 2004. He is now an independent consultant
- Othmar Karas (People's Party), a MEP who has been opposing a national referendum on Turkey's EU accession. He was the only Austrian People's Party MEP to endorse the Eurlings report on 15 December 2004
- Karl-Heinz Grasser is the Austrian finance minister. Although nominally independent, he is a de facto minister of the People's Party.
- Jörg Haider, leader of the BZÖ party and governor of Carinthia
- Hubert Gorbach (BZÖ) is the Austrian Deputy Chancellor and Minister for Infrastructure
- Alfred Gusenbauer has been the chairman of the Austrian Social Democratic Party (SPÖ) since 29 April 2000
- Josef Cap (Social Democratic Party), leader of the party in the parliament
- Norbert Darabos, Secretary General of the Austrian Social Democratic Party
- Heinz Fischer (Social Democratic Party) is the President of Austria
- Johannes Swoboda (Social Democratic Party) is a vice president of the PES group in the EP, and has been a MEP since 1996
- Michael Häupl has been the Mayor and Governor of Vienna since 1994, and the Chairman of the Social Democratic Party of Vienna since 1993
- Alexander Van der Bellen, Chairman of the Austrian Green party
- Johannes Voggenhuber (The Greens), Austrian MEP
- Heinz-Christian Strache, chairman of the FPÖ
- Christian Rainer, publisher and editor-in-chief, profil weekly magazine
- Peter Michael Lingens, a commentator with profil and founder of this weekly magazine in 1970
- Armin Thurnher is editor-in-chief of Falter, a weekly, left-liberal newspaper read mostly in Vienna
- Hans Rauscher, an influential freelance commentator for the daily, left-liberal paper Der Standard and the liberal weekly news and business magazine Format, among others
- Andreas Unterberger is the editor-in-chief of the daily Wiener Zeitung and an influential conservative commentator
- Paul Lendvai is a Hungarian-born Austrian television and print journalist, book author, and a prominent expert on Eastern Europe
- Erhard Busek (People's Party) is the Special Co-ordinator for the Stability Pact for South-eastern Europe in Brussels
- Albert Rohan, Rapporteur of the "Independent Turkey Commission"
- Ewald Nowotny is a Viennese economist, a former deputy director of the European Investment Bank, and a former social democratic MP
- Christoph Leitl is the current chairman of Eurochambres, the president of Austria's chamber of commerce, the chairman of the People Party's powerful "Wirtschaftsbund" grouping
- Franz Rössler is the Austrian Foreign Trade Promotion Organisation´s Regional Manager for South-eastern Europe at the Austrian Chamber of Commerce
- Christian Konrad is the Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Raiffeisen Zentralbank, the international branch of which is very active in Central and Eastern Europe and the Balkans
- Hannes Androsch, a former social democratic finance minister, is now one of Austria's leading industrialists and an influential voice
- Julius Meinl V., presides over Meinl Bank AG, one of Austria's leading private banks with international operations
- Wilhelm Hörmanseder is Chief Executive Officer of the Austrian Mayr-Melnhof group
- Cardinal Christoph Schönborn, the Chairman of the Austrian Bishops' Conference
- Franz Eckert, deacon, is the Austrian Bishops' Conference envoy for European Integration
- Egon Kapellari, the Bishop of the Diocese of Graz
- Anas Schakfeh, president of the Islamic Community in Austria
