Sixty years ago, Otto von Habsburg’s article “The Effects of Communism on Cultural and Psychological Politics in Eastern Europe” appeared. Published a decade after the bloody suppression of the Hungarian Revolution, the essay affirms his conviction that no ideology can permanently eradicate the human longing for freedom.
On July 18, 2025, Edwin J. Feulner, former legendary president of The Heritage Foundation and a prominent figure in Republican politics, passed away at the age of 83. He had also been an associate of our namesake since the mid-1960s.
In commemorating the 50th anniversary of Friedrich August von Hayek’s Nobel Prize in Economics, awarded in December 1974, we seize this occasion not only to reflect on his connection with Otto von Habsburg but also to explore key aspects of our namesake’s profound involvement with the field of economics and economic scholarship.
On 27 November, former Austrian Chancellor Wolfgang Schüssel visited our Foundation.
