Austria Seeks Three-Way Coalition to Quash Far-Right’s Rise

  • Conservatives, social democrats, liberals start formal talks
  • Special task force discussing need for budget consolidation
Andreas Babler, left, Chancellor Karl Nehammer, and Beate Meinl-Reisinger, right, in Vienna, on Nov. 18.Photographer: Helmut Fohringer/AFP/Getty Images
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Austria’s centrist parties are entering formal negotiations on a three-way government coalition with the aim of broad-ranging policy change and sidelining the far-right Freedom Party.

The conservative People’s Party, the Social Democrats and liberal NEOS will enter detailed bargaining on policy after a round of initial talks, Chancellor Karl Nehammer told reporters in Vienna Monday.