Austria’s Kurz Plans to Start Formal Government Talks Next Month

Austrian conservative leader Sebastian Kurz will continue exploratory talks with the environmentalist Greens until Nov. 8 and then decide whether the conversation can graduate to formal and exclusive government negotiations.

The Greens, led by Werner Kogler, are now the group with which Kurz engaged the most in the four weeks since the election those two parties won. Despite vast policy differences, overall voters’ support has switched to this coalition as the preferred one. Yet Kurz has resisted limiting himself to a single option.