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Austrian State Treaty
multilateral 1955 treaty regarding the international status of Austria
Declaration of Neutrality
declaration by the Austrian Parliament declaring the country permanently neutral; enacted on 26 October 1955
Proporz
Proporz (, from , "proportionality") is a long-standing practice in the Second Austrian Republic in which positions in government are distributed between political parties in a manner proportional to their electoral or public support. More broadly, it describes a culture of power sharing and consensus between Austria's two major parties, the Austrian People's Party (ÖVP) and the Social Democratic Party of Austria (SPÖ), which developed throughout the period of grand coalition government from 1945 to 1966. During this time, partisan divisions were established in most government institutions, th