Austria: Sebastian Kurz Opens Talks With Far-Right Party

Austria's conservative leader Sebastian Kurz has said he has invited the far-right Freedom Party for talks to form a coalition government....
Mr Kurz's People's Party won last week's parliamentary election but is well short of a majority.

Immigration was the dominant issue in the run-up to the election, and Mr Kurz moved his party to the right in the wake of Europe's 2015 refugee crisis.

The Freedom Party has accused Mr Kurz of stealing its policies.

October 24, 2017