Austrian Social Democratic Party SPOe leader and Chancellor Werner Faymann (R) and Peoples Party OeVP leader and Vice-chancellor Michael Spindelegger address the media after successful coalition talks during a news conference in Vienna December 12, 2013. REUTERS/Leonhard Foeger
VIENNA (Reuters) - Austria's mainstream pro-Europe parties agreed on Thursday to govern in coalition for the next five years, promising to ensure continued prosperity in the Alpine euro zone nation.
The Social Democrats (SPO) and conservative People's Party (OVP) had promised a new, progressive approach to politics after September elections in which voters tired of party paralysis punished them and bolstered the far right.
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