Ex cancelliere austriaco Sebastian Kurz: Alleanza destra illiberale e tecnologia?

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CONTENUTO ORIGINALE DA RISCRIVERE: Shortly before midnight, waiters serve gin and tonics on the rooftop terrace of the David Kempinski in Tel Aviv. Far below, the lights of this city of half a million are glittering. A gentle breeze drifts in from the Mediterranean. The article you are reading originally appeared in German in issue 51/2025 (December 12th, 2025) of DER SPIEGEL. Sebastian Kurz is up here having a drink with business associates. Just four days ago he had meetings in Abu Dhabi, then Prague, before traveling via Vienna to Israel. In a few hours he will be catching a connecting flight to Berlin. Since the former Austrian chancellor went into business in 2022, he has spent very little time back in his home country. He is now 39, a father of two and - at least on paper - a multimillionaire. A man in a T-shirt is standing on the terrace not far from Kurz, tracing triangles on his smartphone screen to explain how artificial intelligence, cyberspace and quantum computing will become the tools of future "supernations." He sees the U. S., China and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) leading the race. The Israeli Shalev Hulio is, alongside Kurz, one of the founders of the cybersecurity firm Dream. The company claims to protect governments from digital attacks, in addition to electricity and water utilities, banks and telecommunications operators. Hulio co-founded Dream in January 2023. Today, not even three years later, the company is valued at a minimum of 1 billion euros. Kurz himself holds shares worth approximately 150 million euros. Pegasus, the spyware Hulio co-developed and sold, once earned the Israeli a reputation as the bad boy of the industry. Countries around the world used Pegasus to conduct surveillance on dissidents and journalists, leading the U. S. to impose sanctions on Hulio's former company, NSO. It raises the question as to whether Hulio, the descendant of Holocaust survivors, was primarily interested in burnishing his own reputation when he brought the former Austrian chancellor on board. "I would say it's the other way around: it wasn't he who whitewashed me, but I who whitewashed him," Hulio says - presumably an allusion to the fact that Kurz was forced to resign twice as chancellor and is still facing trial on suspicion of corruption. This article appeared previously on Substack. For our most up-to-date features, analysis, interviews and investigative reports, head over to "The German View" - from DER SPIEGEL on Substack. All you have to do to get early access is subscribe! Get it delivered straight to your inbox or follow us on Substack. "Watch what you say," Kurz replies with a grin. Both seem blessed with the ability to shrug off setbacks with ease: a team of two comeback kids. He doesn't believe his Austrian partner has permanently sworn off politics, Hulio says once Kurz is out of earshot: "In Israel we have a proverb from Arabic - 'the flute player's fingers still tremble as he dies.'" But is it really a passion for political life that drives Kurz, who was once celebrated far beyond Vienna as the child prodigy of global politics? The man who was the great hope of European conservatives, the ally of hardline right-wingers like Donald Trump, Viktor Orbán and Benjamin Netanyahu? Or is the Austrian, as critics contend, a gifted marketer - first and foremost of himself? Kurz works many stages. He makes appearances at the World Economic Forum in Davos, the Munich Security Conference and the World Governments Summit in Dubai. He organizes a secret gathering of ministers and magnates in the Tyrolean town of Seefeld, and he has appeared on Germany's premier political talk show in addition to dropping by the Axel Springer Verlag publishing house in Berlin. Beyond software, he now sells diesel vehicle additives and real estate. In the latter venture, he is working alongside the former office manager of bankrupt property tycoon René Benko. On the sidelines of the Salzburg Festival this summer, Kurz once again invited prominent guests to Café Bazar for "Schinkenfleckerl and gin tonic" - even though he announced his complete withdrawal from politics four years ago. To this day, he is under investigation by anti-corruption authorities in Vienna. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen greeting Kurz in Salzburg. What is this hyperactive conservative's ultimate goal? Joining the ex-chancellor on his travels and speaking with his confidants does little to shake clear up the confusion. Does someone currently wheeling and dealing at the highest levels really want to return to politics? Or is he leveraging high-ranking contacts and the spotlight primarily to broker new, even more lucrative ventures? "The people I'm dealing with now - I didn't know any of them before. It's a different world, geographically and thematically," Kurz says during a conversation at the Clarion Hotel in Prague. "It's not that I didn't enjoy politics, but after 10 years it feels good to do something different." That sounds like neither a definitive yes nor a decisive no to a political comeback. It sounds like Kurz 2025: a resolute maybe. Speaking from the stage at a congress of entrepreneurs, bankers and politicians in Prague, Kurz adopts the tone of a seasoned globetrotter as he describes how dramatically Europe is losing ground in international competition. But he also looks back at the refugee crisis, at Angela Merkel and his own divergent stance on migration. "Ten years later, I think it's fair to say I was right," he claims. Uncontrolled immigration, he argues, is "a heavy burden" on the social system, especially over the long term - owing to differing birth rates. In private, Kurz is blunter when it comes to political opponents on the left - the "friends of open-border policies." He also brings up the supposedly naive "LGBTQ supporters for Palestine," saying he wouldn't wish upon them an encounter with the "gentlemen from Hamas." With rhetorical finesse, Kurz blends elements from his old and new repertoires - the positions of the former politician flow into the strategy of a businessman whose primary focus is now the Middle East. He spends "at least one week per month in Middle East," he says. Publicly, the ex-chancellor extols the United Arab Emirates as "one of the most dynamic, safest and most attractive places in the world" - a country that, with 3,500 hours of sunshine a year, an enlightened sheikh at the helm and efficient bureaucracy behind the scenes, draws go-getters from around the globe. Not a word about what critics see in the Emirates: corruption, tolerance of money laundering, ruthless persecution of dissidents. The European Parliament has denounced "arbitrary arrest, death threats and physical attacks" in the case of human rights activist Ahmed Mansoor, held in solitary confinement for years. Mansoor's arrest was preceded by digital attacks using NSO's Pegasus spyware, in addition to other harassment. Kurz's partner Hulio severed all ties with NSO in 2022. Late at night on the hotel terrace in Tel Aviv, he concedes that individual government clients may have done some ugly things with Pegasus. But Hulio vigorously rejects any accusation of complicity - for instance, in the murder of surveilled Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Istanbul in 2018.

LEAD La notizia che ha suscitato interesse e dibattito nel mondo politico e finanziario si svolge in un contesto di profonda trasformazione economica e tecnologica. Il 12 dicembre 2025, alle porte del mezzanotte, il presidente del consiglio austriaco Sebastian Kurz si trova su un terrazzo panoramico del David Kempinski a Tel Aviv, dove gli attende un gruppo di collaboratori. L'atmosfera è tranquilla, ma non priva di tensioni. Kurz, 39 anni, padre di due figli e ex leader politico, è tornato a muoversi in un ambiente completamente diverso da quello che ha lasciato anni fa. La sua presenza in Israele, insieme a Shalev Hulio, fondatore di Dream, un'azienda di cybersecurity, segna un nuovo capitolo nella sua carriera. Tra i due, un'alleanza che unisce le competenze di un ex premier e quelle di un innovatore del settore digitale. La scena è un mix di opportunità e rischi, con l'orizzonte illuminato dalle luci di una città che svela le sue contraddizioni.

SVILUPPO Kurz, che ha abbandonato l'attività politica nel 2021, ha trasformato la sua vita in una serie di millefoglie di affari internazionali. Dopo aver lasciato l'Austria, ha investito in settori diversi, tra cui tecnologia, energia e immobili. La sua collaborazione con Hulio, che ha co-fondato Dream nel 2023, rappresenta un punto di svolta. La società, valutata a un miliardo di euro, si occupa di proteggere governi, infrastrutture critiche e aziende da attacchi informatici. Kurz, che detiene azioni per 150 milioni di euro, si muove in un mondo in cui le tecnologie di sorveglianza e l'intelligenza artificiale sono strumenti di potere. La sua presenza in Israele, un Paese in cui il controllo digitale è un elemento chiave, sottolinea una strategia di espansione globale. Tuttavia, le sue azioni non sono prive di controversie. Hulio, che ha fondato insieme a lui Dream, ha sostenuto che Kurz non ha mai cercato di "pulire" la sua immagine, ma anzi ha contribuito a "pulire" la sua.

CONTESTO La carriera di Kurz, che ha guidato l'Austria tra il 2017 e il 2020, è segnata da una serie di scelte che hanno radicalmente cambiato la sua vita. Dopo essere stato costretto a dimettersi per due volte per motivi di cor