Austrian Chancellor and head of the social democrats (SPOe) Werner Faymann talks to journalists as he arrives for a senior party leaders' meeting at the parliament in Vienna September 30, 2013, the day after parliamentary elections. REUTERS/Heinz-Peter Bader
VIENNA (Reuters) - Austria's pro-Europe political establishment may struggle to form a new coalition after slumping to a wafer-thin majority in elections, leaving the far right breathing down its neck over unaddressed threats to the nation's prosperity.
With the anti-immigrant, anti-EU Freedom Party waiting in the wings, Chancellor Werner Faymann's Social Democrats want another coalition with the conservative People's Party. The two have dominated Austrian politics since World War Two.
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