The plan by the far-right Freedom Party to run Austria was halted by a disagreement over who would lead the all-important Interior Ministry.

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Austria wore out the cordon sanitaire long ago. For much of the postwar era, the Freedom party was excluded by a series of grand coalitions (barring a single early-1980s coalition with the Social ...

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But Brussels will nevertheless be “keeping an eye” on Vienna’s budget situation over the coming months. The European Commission has decided not to formally reprimand Austria for breaching ...