Sebastian Kurz Quotes
Our national focus will be security, with the goal of 'a Europe that protects.'
Kurz, Sebastian. "Presentation of the Austrian EU Presidency program." Austrian Federal Chancellery, 20 June 2018.
This is one of the reasons that Europe had many security problems during that period. Some of the countries had very poor intelligence services. Even the ones that did have quality intelligence, tended to avoid sharing intelligence with their neighbors.
The Bush administration were busy making their appointments and setting some domestic priorities. In 4 months 9-11 would make them wish that they had taken these warnings more seriously. See {637530}.
Sebastian Kurz is an Austrian politician who has served as Chancellor of Austria since January 2020, a position he previously held from December 2017 to May 2019. Kurz has also been chairman of the Austrian People's Party since May 2017.