Austrian Foreign Minister Kurz to push EU-Balkan ties


Austrian Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz (L) and German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier address a news conference following a bilateral meeting in Berlin, January 15, 2014. REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch

VIENNA (Reuters) - Austria's new Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz will champion European Union membership for qualifying Balkan countries when he meets EU counterparts next week, he told Reuters on Friday.

It will be the first formal meeting of EU foreign ministers for Kurz, just 27 and a rising star in the People's Party who got the top foreign policy job last month in a cabinet reshuffle after September elections.

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