Economics
Austria's Kurz Offers Assurance to Europe After Right-Wing Pact
- Conservative-nationalist government vows to stay in EU, euro
- Freedom Party scores ministries overseeing police and army
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Austria’s new right-wing government sought to dispel concerns over its future in Europe, pledging to remain an “integral part” of the European Union and the euro currency and ruling out a Brexit-like vote for the public.
Chancellor-designate Sebastian Kurz, 31, of the conservative People’s Party, told journalists in Vienna on Saturday that he’d like to “remove worries” abroad about the course of his coalition with the nationalist Freedom Party, which in the past has toyed with the idea of a referendum on Austria’s EU membership.