Big Austrian parties clinch coalition deal


  • World
  • Thursday, 12 Dec 2013

VIENNA (Reuters) - The two big pro-Europe parties that have dominated postwar Austrian politics clinched a deal to extend their coalition government, their leaders said on Thursday.

Chancellor Werner Faymann's centre-left Social Democrats (SPO) and their junior partners, the conservative People's Party (OVP), struck a deal to revive the coalition that has governed since 2006.

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