Then they just do it alone, again. For months,the burgenlanders have been arguing with the Viennese about “guest patients” from pannonia who are no longer welcome in the capital’s hospitals. So, as SPÖ governor Hans Peter Doskozil announced publicly, they would simply set up their own heart surgery in Oberwart.Too expensive, too inefficient, say critics.

Doskozil says: “We can only rely on ourselves.” And basically,this sentence sums up the special path on which he has been leading Burgenland for almost seven years.