The top candidate of the Austrian freedom party (FPOe) Andreas Moelzer (L) drinks beer while the top candidate of the Buendnis Zukunft Oesterreich (BZOe) Ewald Stadler appears on a TV screen after first projections for a European parliament elections were published in Vienna June 7, 2009. REUTERS/Dominic Ebenbichler
VIENNA (Reuters) - Pressure mounted on Austria's far-right Freedom Party to fire one of its two top candidates for next month's EU parliament elections after he made racist comments and said the bloc made Nazi Germany's Third Reich look liberal by comparison.
Andreas Moelzer has apologised for saying the European Union was in danger of becoming a "conglomerate of negroes" who lacked the work ethic of the Germans and the Austrians.
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