First Sentence

"During the last decade or so Austria, like many other European countries, has been confronted with four major challenges: two of them highly political, the consequences of the fall of the Iron Curtain and the accelerating processes of European integration facilitated, in part, by the end of a divided Europe; two of them in the field of education, on the one hand the globalisation of the world economy, and the explosion of the information society on the other."