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by roenxi 1676 days ago
Looking at the US, because they keep good records on emergencies, it has been unlikely for an emergency situation to end from around 1994. There appears to still be an ongoing emergency that started in 1979.

This is a relative strong precedent in the west of emergency powers being used in an ongoing way.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_national_emergencies_i...

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I'm not sure the US counts as precedent for Austria or that Austria even counts as "The West" seeing how it's a constitutionally neutral country